Turkish Cypriot judiciary renews calls for judicial reform referendum

The north’s supreme court’s chief justice Bertan Ozerdag on Sunday renewed his call for a referendum to be held with a view to enacting sweeping reforms to the Turkish Cypriot judicial system, so as to allow it to operate faster and more efficiently.

“The constitutional amendment aims to increase the number of supreme court judges, to have administrative cases heard in district courts as first instance cases, to transition to a three-tiered judicial system, and to pave the way for compensation...