Cyprus Mail17 Oct 2026

Christodoulides, Erhurman send ‘message of peace’ at Pyla festival

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman jointly attended the annual bicommunal festival in the Larnaca district village of Pyla on Saturday evening, with the former declaring upon his arrival at the event that “we are sending a message of peace”.

“We are sending a message of … coexistence and a message regarding the need to finally reunify our homeland. I reiterate what I said in a recent interview with the Turkish Cypriot press: if it were up to the Greek...

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