But newspapers in the Turkish-occupied territory said the hotel owner has offered J.Lo an olive branch, saying there is still time to reverse her decision.<\/p>\n
The singer had been due to perform on July 24 at the\u00a0Cratos Premium<\/strong> hotel and casino complex – but the booking outraged Greek Cypriots in the south of the island nation.<\/p>\n They claimed that performing in the disputed north would be tantamount to making a political statement and the singer was deluged with thousands of letters of protest.<\/p>\n A Facebook site against the concert signed up almost 20,000 members within a week.<\/p>\n In backing out of the concert, a spokesperson for J.Lo told celebrity gossip website TMZ: “Jennifer Lopez<\/strong><\/span> would never knowingly support any state, country, institution or regime that was associated with any form of human rights abuse.<\/p>\n “After a full review of the relevant circumstances in Cyprus, it was the decision of management to withdraw from the appearance. This was a team decision that reflects our sensitivity to the political realities of the region.”<\/p>\n Yet Feza Firat, whose Istanbul-based F&F Agency represents the Cratos hotel, claims Lopez had been “led to believe there was a war going on”.<\/p>\n Mr Firat went on to say the singer’s fee had already been paid.<\/p>\n The US-based\u00a0American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association<\/strong><\/span> claimed the concert would “lend credence to an illegal entity recognised only by Turkey”.<\/p>\n Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkey occupied the north to try and stop Nicosia uniting with Greece.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus<\/strong><\/span> is only recognised by Turkey and has been a significant political barrier to Turkey being allowed to join the EU.<\/p>\n The SkyNews<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A luxury hotel in northern Cyprus has threatened to sue pop star Jennifer Lopez for $40m (\u00a327m) after she cancelled a gig there for “political” reasons. But newspapers in the Turkish-occupied territory said the hotel owner has offered J.Lo an olive branch, saying there is still time to reverse her decision. The singer had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846,2939,211,922],"tags":[3255,3256],"class_list":["post-20655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-cultureart","category-cyprus-trnc","category-world","tag-cypriot-hotel","tag-jennifer-lopez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}