While the Turkish Cypriots are mourning for 49 members of their community, including the entire members of two junior volleyball school teams from Famagusta, who lost their lives in the major earthquake that hit Turkey; second round of presidential campaign has been concluded on the other side of the divide. Nikos Christodoulides has been elected as the new president of Republic of Cyprus, defeating his opponent Andreas Mavroyiannis 52% – 48% in the second round. In this episode of Nicosia Uncut, Andromachi Sophocleous and Kemal Baykalli discuss the responses of both communities to this massive trauma Turkish Cypriots are currently going through. In the second part of this episode, they discuss the election results, position of the parties, candidates and more importantly what we should be expecting in the upcoming months with a particular focus on the Cyprus problem.
