BPresident · 2015 – 2020Partially recognized
Mustafa Akıncı
The fourth president of Northern Cyprus (b. 1947), an architect who was mayor of the Nicosia Turkish Municipality for 14 years.
Mustafa Akıncı was elected mayor of the Nicosia Turkish Municipality in 1976 at 28 and served until 1990; projects to restore the old city won international awards. He later served as an MP and minister.
Elected president in 2015, he took part in the 2017 Cyprus talks at Crans-Montana in Switzerland and served until 2020.
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Updated: October 4, 2026