Aktunç: We will turn Nicosia into a planned capital with standards

Mehmet Aktunç, the National Unity Party (UBP) candidate for mayor of the Turkish Municipality of Lefkoşa (LTB), visited Arasta Bazaar with UBP council candidates and met shopkeepers and residents. Visiting businesses one by one, he listened to their problems and expectations.

Aktunç said Arasta is one of the most important areas reflecting Lefkoşa's historic identity, but building exteriors lack a common standard. He also said roads are repeatedly dug up for different infrastructure works, harming citizens and businesses, and that inter-agency planning and coordination would be the basis of future work.

Stressing that municipal revenues should be turned into services that ease daily life, Aktunç said the aim is to gradually reduce financial burdens on citizens. Ahead of the 6 December local elections, he said the city would be developed into a planned, orderly capital with defined standards.