Turkish Cypriot daily Realist newspaper (17.03.14) publishes an interview of Afrika newspaper’s journalist Sener Levent who will be a candidate for the European Parliament elections.

Levent calls on the 80 thousand Turkish Cypriots who have an identity card of the Republic of Cyprus to vote for the EU elections. According to Levent, if the Turkish Cypriots participate in the elections they can easily be represented to the EU Parliament with three seats.

He went on and stated that the Turkish Cypriots show very little interests for the elections and added that if they could realize how important the EU Parliament elections are for the Turkish Cypriots, things could be different.

He also said that according to a survey conducted by Greek Cypriot Politis newspaper which asked its readers if they would vote for Sener Levent, 11% stated that they would vote for him.