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UN observation post in Cyprus - the island entered the EU in 2004 while still divided (Photo: UN)

MEPs consider Turkish Cypriot observers in EU parliament

Political group leaders in the European Parliament will on Thursday (14 March) discuss a contentious report which raises the idea of Turkish Cypriot representatives in the parliament, while also proposing that Turkish should get an official EU language status.

The confidential report - seen by EUobserver - was prepared by the parliament's "High-Level Contact Group for relations with the Turkish Cypriot community in the northern part of the island," a cross-political group of MEPs estab...

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UN observation post in Cyprus - the island entered the EU in 2004 while still divided (Photo: UN)

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