Three and a half years since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood inside the former Dianellos cigarette factory which has functioned as the Turkish Cypriot legislature since 1974 and promised a new ‘presidential’ palace and ‘parliament’ building, the gargantuan project in Ayios Dhometios is nearing completion .
Set across a total of 657,000 square metres and consisting of a ‘presidential’ palace, a ‘parliament’, a mosque, a park, and potentially a