Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Akdağ arrived in the TRNC on Friday to hold talks regarding the ongoing cooperation protocol works that have been signed with Turkey. Akdağ will meet with the technical delegation leading on delivery of these works, and attend the closing session of the Second Economic Program review meeting.

Akdağ will be received by Speaker of the Assembly Sibel Siber and Prime Minister Hüseyin Özgürgün. During his visit, Akdağ will also visit martyrdoms, Dipkarpaz, Tatlısu, Hz. Ömer Tomb and Girne Antique Harbor, as well as meeting with teachers and students who visited Çanakkale.