The first hearing of a defamation lawsuit Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar had filed against pro-opposition Turkish Cypriot newspaper Yeniduzen was heard at court in northern Nicosia on Wednesday.
Tatar is suing the newspaper, its then editor-in-chief Cenk Mutluyakali, and columnist Serhat Incirli for up to 5 million TL (€115,225) in damages over a series of four opinion columns Incirli had written over the summer of 2022.
Those articles made
