Various accounts mentioning that the price of potatoes is dropping, although the Cyprus Mail (South) is pleased to report on a demonstration in Nicosia in which protesting trade union members threw potatoes at the office of TRNC Prime Minister Unal Ustel. Note that’s at the office and not at the man himself. There is a particular satisfaction for Greek Cypriot sources in publishing negative stories about the North, and the term ‘prime minister’ is put in quotation marks. Slightly less offensive than the standard Southern news reference in the past to the “so-called prime minister” or “so-called government”. But maybe that was only in television news and not print.
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| Courtesy Cyprus Mail |