Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday evaluated the landslide election defeat which saw him removed from office in October, saying that the Turkish Cypriot people had refused to be “directed by others” .
“The Turkish Cypriots are a free and self-determining people. They said, ‘we will never accept being directed by others’,” he told Turkish news website T24 in reference to the support he received from many powerful
