Tom Cleaver

Rauf Alp Denktash, grandson of former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Raif Denktash, was named Turkey’s Ambassador to Poland on Friday. File photo: Rauf Alp Denktash with his grandfather The ...

The Foreign Ministry has confirmed that both Poland and Spain have withdrawn from joint military exercises which included the north’s military. Ministry spokesperson Theodoros Gkotsis said the ministry has ...

Government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday that it is “conceivable” to expect visits from the United Nations in the near future. Letymbiotis said “on our part all efforts are ...

Parliament is discussing a bill which aims to outline the rules of remote working. The bill, which was put to the house on Thursday, sets out the rights and responsibilities ...

Works to conserve the Ayios Georgios church and the Panayia Ayia Napa church, were completed on Thursday. The churches, which are both located in the Famagusta area, were the subject ...

The Ayia Napa municipality announced on Thursday that there will be an increased police presence throughout the summer in the town. According to the municipality, the move to increase police ...

A 29-year-old man has been injured in a car crash in the Paphos district on Thursday. The crash took place between the villages of Ayios Dimitrianos and Kannaviou. The 29-year-old ...

Plans were announced by the government on Thursday for the creation of a new deputy ministry of migration and asylum. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou explained that the new deputy ministry ...

Two people have been arrested after attempting to smuggle a kilogram of cannabis to the north across the Ledras Street crossing point. The suspects, whose names have not yet been ...

The north’s sheep and goat pox issue appears to have spread to close to the capital, with six farm animals in the northern Nicosia suburb of Mandres culled on ...

Telsim, the largest telecommunications network in the north, have announced that its long-awaited upgrade to 4G mobile internet will be ready for operations on July 30. Speaking on Thursday morning, its ...

Turkish Cypriot farmers in Karpasia are demanding a solution to the problem of free-roaming donkeys, which they say have spread far beyond their designated area and have become a crop-chomping ...

A 38-year-old man has been jailed for two years after being found guilty of aiding third country nationals to illegally enter the country, having driven a boat from Syria into ...

A new bill aimed at clamping down on poaching and preserving the country’s biodiversity has been put forward for public consultation by the interior ministry. The bill sets out ...

The Mayor of Dherynia, Andros Karagiannis, has claimed that ‘some EU countries are practically supporting Turkey’. Speaking regarding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s announcement of the planned construction ...

Turkish Cypriot journalists gathered outside the north’s ‘presidential’ palace on Wednesday morning to protest the alleged ejection of journalist Serhat İncirli from the press pack at the palace on ...

The trial of a man accused of killing 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot Zehie Helin Reessur in the north in January is set to restart on June 20. The trial of Sefer Buğ...

Patients undergo “unimaginable suffering” because of an ongoing spat between physiotherapists and the and the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), the federation of patients’ associations said on Tuesday. They called on ...

Ten years after he first took on the post, Diko president Nicholas Papadopoulos on Tuesday was the only party member to register his candidacy to lead the party after elections ...

Turkish Cypriot media on Tuesday reported that the 315kg of halloumi seized by police from a private vehicle in Paphos on Monday originated in the north. The cheese did not ...

The new University of Limassol held its opening ceremony on Monday evening, with Education Minister Athina Michailidou promising innovative teaching methods which connect easily with the labour market. Michailidou told ...

The ‘presidency’ in the north released a statement on Monday night rubbishing journalist Serhat İncirli’s claims he was ejected from talks between Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and Turkish ...

The Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends (Pasykaf) have declared this week “Male cancer awareness week”. It is part of the association’s campaign to raise awareness and early ...

Τurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday made the north of Cyprus the destination of his first overseas visit following his reelection last month. He arrived on the island ...