TURKISH CYPRUS COMPLAINS ABOUT ACCESS BAR TO EU EDUCATION PROGRAMMES

BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EASTERN Mediterranean University (EMU) in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus is waiting for an imminent ruling from the European Ombudsman charging the European Commission with "maladministration" over its refusal to allow access to the EU's Socrates and Erasmus programmes and the Bologna Process on higher education structure.Mr Kaya Arslan, an attorney and adviser to the EMU's rector Professor Dr Halil Guven, told the Times Higher Education Supplement that the proposed UN Cyprus reunification plan - overwhelmingly accepted by Turkish Cypriots - ...


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