#checkpoints

A routine border inspection at the Ayios Dhometios crossing led to the seizure of undeclared cigarettes, tobacco and fish products, the customs department said on Monday. Two separate incidents took ...

Efforts to open new vehicle crossing points in Nicosia will continue with determination, Turkish Cypriot Nicosia Mayor Mehmet Harmanci said on Tuesday. He was speaking after a meeting with Turkish ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said that the Turkish Cypriot side had rejected a proposal to open further checkpoints that he put forward, it was reported on Tuesday. Christodoulides spoke to CyBC ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday that if Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar wanted the Mia Milia checkpoint to “truly” open he could have already done so. Christodoulides, speaking at ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will discuss opening a new checkpoint a Mia Milia during his meeting with UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin slated for July 1, it emerged on Friday. ...

Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut was arrested on Friday while attempting to cross from the north to the Republic. Aykut is the founder of the Afik Group, which has ...

Monday marks exactly 20 years since the European Union’s Green Line regulation, which regulates the movement of people and goods between Cyprus’ two sides, was adopted. The regulation was adopted ...

Two more people were remanded in custody on Tuesday after being arrested on Monday night for attempting to cross to the north by car with false insurance documents. The pair, ...

A record number of Greek Cypriots crossing at the checkpoints to the north has eclipsed the Ercan (Tymbou) airport in importance, according to Turkish Cypriot media. Diyalog reported that for ...

Another Greek Cypriot has been arrested in the north after attempting to pass the Ayios Dometios crossing point with counterfeit car insurance documents. The man, aged 42, was arrested on Monday ...

And the church’s role in schools ensures it will stay that way By Fahri Zihni My late mother was born in the village of Tera, Paphos in 1924 to a ...

Polis Chrysochous and Tylliria communities said on Tuesday they want the Kokkina area crossing point reopened as speculation grew over the opening of additional crossing points. In a letter to ...

The island needs more checkpoints with easier access for both drivers and pedestrians, Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties and commercial organisations said on Wednesday. “The current crossing points ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday called on the government to take immediate action to tackle ‘unfair competition’ taking place across the Green Line, as well as clamp down on smuggling from the ...

The opening of more checkpoints could be discussed as part of creating new momentum on Cyprus talks, Greek Cypriot negotiator Menelaos Menelaou said on Monday after President Nikos Christodoulides met ...

From those who refuse to show their passports at the checkpoints to those who have found the love of their lives across the divide, few subjects are as emotive in ...

The bicommunal peace initiative United Cyprus called on Sunday for new crossing points to open between the two sides. Marking the 20-year anniversary since the first checkpoint opened in 2003 at ...

Öntaç Düzgün was seriously contemplating closing down his small knitting and wool shop in the heart of the walled city in north Nicosia, when the crossing points opened ...

There may not yet be an overall solution yet but a whole new generation has experienced what their parents did not Twenty years after the opening of the first crossing ...

The interior ministry on Monday said that it has taken them two years to get the approval for hiring hourly workers at the checkpoints, condemning an article over the weekend ...

The leadership in the north appears to be having second thoughts about opening more crossing points, it appeared on Wednesday, with the possibility of increasing movement through the Ledra Palace ...

Cyprus’ crossing points are not borders, but a temporary arrangement, Greek Cypriot negotiator Menelaos Menelaou said on Monday, following reports regarding efforts to introduce customs checks. Turkish Cypriot authorities have ...

More than two million visits by foreign nationals and more than one million by Greek Cypriots were made to the north in the first five months of this year, Turkish ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel has said he wants more checkpoints opened, improvements to reduce long queues at the current ones but also for those crossing to get a ...