FORMER Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat has not ruled out running for ‘president’ next year, reports said on Tuesday.
In a speech he delivered in Corum in Turkey, Talat, who negotiated on Cyprus with former President Demetris Christofias from 2008 to 2010 when he was replaced by Dervis Eroglu, said he would not however run without party backing.
Talat said that during the time he served, he did not manage to solve the Cyprus problem because Christofias had “internal problems” and feared losing coalition partner DIKO. The Cyprus issue could be resolved in three months if the two sides have the same goal, said Talat.
He said he and Christofias had managed to agree 31 convergences. “This was the first time in the history of the Cyprus negotiations that both sides prepared documents stating that they have agreed to these issues,” he said. “But we needed more time.”
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