Our View: Government condemnation plays into Tatar’s hands

MEP Fidias Panayiotou managed to incur the wrath of the political establishment once again by visiting the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar at his new ‘presidential’ office for an interview. All the pro-government parties, led by government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis, issued disparaging statements about Panayiotou, who was dismissed as a “pawn and tool of Turkish diplomacy”, who was “performing a ‘lewd’ act against the country,” and engaging in “the humiliation