Around 300 join Arikli’s ‘respect to the motherland’ counterprotest

Around 300 people on Wednesday evening joined a march to the Turkish embassy in northern Nicosia organised by the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli to show “respect to the motherland”, Turkey , in the wake of a wave of protests organised in the north against the ruling coalition’s legalisation of the wearing of hijabs by children at public schools.

Arikli had called the protest on amid a gathering of around