Overview

• President Erdoğan visited northern Cyprus to inaugurate government buildings and reaffirm support for a two-state solution to the Cyprus dispute.
• The new headscarf law, allowing students to wear headscarves in schools, has sparked widespread protests in Nicosia led by trade unions and civil society groups.
• Protesters accuse Ankara of imposing political Islam and undermining the secular identity of Turkish Cypriots, one of the world's most secular Muslim communities.
• Erdoğan warned demonstrators against creating division, stating that attempts to disrupt unity in northern Cyprus would fail.
• Teachers' unions have filed a constitutional challenge to overturn the headscarf regulation, as protests and opposition efforts continue to gain momentum.