Friday marks 41 years since the illegal declaration of the north of Cyprus as a separate republic.
The declaration of the occupied areas as the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ (TRNC) was made on November 15, 1983.
The so-called ‘TRNC’ is recognised as a state only by Ankara, having been declared illegal by the international community through UN Security Council resolutions 541 and 550, which condemned the event as an
