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Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu on Friday sharply criticised President Nikos Christodoulides’ meeting with newly appointed EU envoy for the Cyprus problem Raffaele Fitto. Referring to what he described ...

Turkey will “not abandon” the Turkish Cypriots and will “continue to defend” what it considers their rights in the Levant, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, as UN Secretary-General ...

The north’s three-party ruling coalition found itself divided on Monday over its stance on United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ arrival in Cyprus, with one of the parties saying it ...

The Turkish Cypriot ruling coalition was largely silent on Friday over a bill which was put forward to and eventually rejected by the Turkish parliament late on Thursday night, demanding ...

A man died on Friday after a 2,500-tonne grain silo collapsed in the Karpas peninsula village of Koma tou Yialou. The man, named as 46-year-old Lokman Hacihasanoglu, was initially rescued ...

Moroccan nationals who studied at universities in northern Cyprus have announced their intention to hold a sit-in protest outside the education ministry in Rabat, with the country continuing to refuse ...

The foreign ministry on Monday condemned the visit of Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz to the north on the occasion of the Turkish invasion in 1974. “We remain committed to the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman stressed the need for “results” to be achieved at the next enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem in his speech marking the 52nd anniversary of ...

American singer Jason Derulo is expected to perform at a luxury resort in Kyrenia this Saturday. According to the resort’s social media posts as well as online ticketing platforms, ...

Seven girls aged between 12 and 15 have alleged they were sexually abused by a 64-year-old man at a horse-riding school in Lapithos, with investigators in the north continuing inquiries as further ...

The north should be called the “Turkish Republic of Cyprus”, the man installed by a court decision as leader of Turkey’s largest opposition political party, the CHP, Kemal Kilicdaroglu ...

The two Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north on Sunday were both remanded in custody for three days on Monday. The Turkish Cypriot police informed the Cyprus Mail ...

Two young Greek Cypriots, a man and a woman, were detained in the north on Sunday on allegations of entering a restricted military zone and failing to complete the required ...

The north’s supreme court’s chief justice Bertan Ozerdag on Sunday renewed his call for a referendum to be held with a view to enacting sweeping reforms to the ...

Fifty-two-year-old property developer Ahmet Noyan appeared in court in Trikomo on Wednesday after having been arrested on suspicion of negligence after one of the many buildings constructed by his company ...

A 53-year-old Lithuanian woman was arrested in France on a European court warrant for allegedly usurping Greek Cypriot property in the north. According to the police, the process of extraditing ...

A new management programme for fencing-in the free roaming donkeys of the Karpasia peninsula entered its implementation phase on Friday, with authorities in the north beginning to collect animals found ...

A dead whale was found on the beach in Kazivera on the western coast in the north on Thursday. The whale was a juvenile, around 4.15 metres in length and weighing 1.5 ...

The Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign ministry’ on Monday excoriated the State of Israel for its decision to recognise the mass displacement and death of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire ...

New allegations published by Saudi media have placed the north of Cyprus under scrutiny over claims that it has been used as a transit and operational hub by networks linked ...

The Cypriot government has penned a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres complaining of more than 500 violations of the island’s airspace in the three months between the beginning ...

The Cypriot government has proposed that the European Union provide €389 million worth of support for the Turkish Cypriot community over the course of the seven years between 2028 and 2034, as it ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Thursday said that significant progress has been made since he was elected to the role in October last year, saying that “we are much ...

Reports that Turkish Cypriot air traffic controllers “harassed” the aircraft on which Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias was flying to Cyprus overnight are “misrepresentations” of the truth, Turkish Cypriot air ...