Turkish foreign ministry saddened by Clerides’ death

The Turkish foreign ministry has expressed regret over the death of former president Glafkos Clerides who died on Friday aged 94.

“We are saddened by the news of the passing of Glafcos Clerides, a lawyer and politician who assumed a number of important positions at critical times, starting with the phase of establishment of the partnership State in Cyprus 1960, who served the Greek Cypriot community that he has led for several years,” the Turkish foreign ministry said in a press release.

It added that “it is the more regrettable” that Clerides, who, together with the late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, assumed an important role in the negotiating processes since 1968, did not live to see the achievement of a lasting comprehensive settlement on the island.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.