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Parliamentary minutes in Turkish

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Parliament's website has a Turkish edition, but its own menu leaves out the Digital Library, where the plenary minutes are kept. The minutes archive — covering 1960-2021 and the current term — is reachable only through the Greek-language pages. Whether any minutes are published in Turkish remains undocumented. This is Cyprus Rights' own structural observation of the site, dated 27 August 2026.12

Basis and sources

Legal anchor Article 3 of the 1960 Constitution (legislative, administrative and judicial acts to be drawn up in both official languages)

Sources for this criterion

  1. 1. House of Representatives website, Turkish-language edition and plenary-minutes archive (structural observation)A — primary / documentary · House of Representatives of Cyprus · 2026-08-27
  2. 2. Turkish Cypriot Rights Issue Register and Legal Framework Register (Cyprus Rights reference corpus)D — open source · Cyprus Rights · 2026-08-24

Status undocumentedWeight 3/5Score Insufficiently documented — no score

Sources

  1. House of Representatives website, Turkish-language edition and plenary-minutes archive (structural observation)A — primary / documentaryHouse of Representatives of Cyprus · 2026-08-27A direct structural observation of the House of Representatives' website, covering its Turkish-language edition and plenary-minutes archive.Directly observed 27 August 2026: parliament.cy offers a Turkish-language edition whose own navigation omits the Digital Library; the plenary-minutes archive (1960-2021 and current term) is reachable only through the Greek-language pageshttps://www.parliament.cy/
  2. Turkish Cypriot Rights Issue Register and Legal Framework Register (Cyprus Rights reference corpus)D — open sourceCyprus Rights · 2026-08-24Cyprus Rights' own internal reference corpus of registers tracking Turkish Cypriot rights issues and the applicable legal framework.Cyprus Rights reference corpus, compiled 24 August 2026: internal/reference/rights-issue-register-turkish-cypriot.md and internal/reference/legal-framework-register.md. Cited for duty-bearer positions as the registers record them and for documentation-gap statements; each register entry carries its own underlying sources