Turkish Cypriot leader: ‘The only way forward is a two-state solution’

Self-avowed nationalist Ersin Tatar in ebullient mood despite embargos, isolation and political restrictions

It's been nine months since Ersin Tatar assumed the presidency of the self-declared Turkish republic of northern Cyprus and, like his predecessors, he has found little has changed.

Embargos, international isolation and political restrictions remain perennial problems for his unrecognised state. Even today, nearly 38 years after the territory proclaimed independence, foreign dignitaries pass through his colonial-era office and still object to being photographed next to the flags on his desk.