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By Tom Cleaver A road tunnel is to be built under the Pentadaktylos mountain range to connect Kyrenia with the town of Kythrea, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers’ legal challenge to have the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs at public schools declared unlawful was on Thursday suspended indefinitely ...

Turkey’s environment ministry is to put out a tender to create a three-dimensional “digital twin” of the north, with the aim of the model being used to facilitate the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday warned of “daily divisive rhetoric” on the campaign trail ahead of October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership elections. “We are at the beginning, if you will, ...

Serdar Denktash, the son of influential late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, on Wednesday said that every time incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar speaks, he feels ashamed. “Every time ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Monday called for the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport to be treated as a Turkish airport, suggesting that the move may allow ...

The Turkish gunman who was arrested by the Republic of Cyprus’ police and handed over to the United Nations and then the Turkish Cypriot authorities at the Ledra Palace crossing ...

The north’s economy would be in recession were it not for Greek Cypriots visiting and spending money, ‘economy minister’ Olgun Amcaoglu said on Tuesday. “After the pandemic, if the ...

The Cyprus problem “is above politics in Turkey”, the country’s Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Tuesday. Speaking during a visit to the north, he said that across Turkey’...

Speaking during an online seminar by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Alexandra Attalides said the situation in the Turkish-controlled north was worsening, with new pressures on women’s freedoms coming directly ...

Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) council of elders chairman and former Turkish prime minister Binali Yildirim on Thursday insisted there is no “new development” in relations between central Asian states ...

Turkish Cypriot ruling coalition party DP ‘MP’ Serhat Akpinar on Thursday called for the north’s authorities to close the island’s crossing points over the recent arrests and court ...

Greek Cypriot refugee Christos Saveriades has been awarded €9 million in damages by the Turkish Cypriot ‘immovable property commission’ (IPC) for the loss of use of his property in the north, ...

Children and parents in the Karpas village of Yialousa staged a protest on Tuesday against the north’s ruling coalition days after a school bus overturned in the village leading ...

The north’s ruling coalition on Friday changed its legislation regarding the purchase of real estate by non-Turkish Cypriots, allowing them to buy more properties. Foreign nationals are now allowed ...

Teachers were locked out of a school in the north on Friday as relations between them and the north’s ruling coalition continue to sour over the ruling coalition’s ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers were in court on Thursday for the latest hearing of their challenge to have the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Thursday called for revenge to be taken on the Greek Cypriot side on the matter of property, in light of recent arrests, ...

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who served under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, decried the “quagmire” of corruption, money laundering, and mafia activities in northern Cyprus, describing that quagmire as “...

A political ally of former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator Kudret Ozersay was arrested on Thursday night, amid a deepening row between Ozersay and the north’s ruling coalition over the ...

The opposition in the north has expressed anger over the decision of ‘MPs’ from ruling coalition party the UBP to refuse to lift the ‘parliamentary’ immunity of one of their ...

Nicosia’s central Selimiye mosque reopened on Thursday after five years of renovations. The reopening ceremony was attended by Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal ...

A selection of Turkish Cypriot journalists gathered at the north’s police headquarters on Thursday morning to demand bolstered protection for Aysemden Akin, who received death threats after publishing a ...

The invasion of Cyprus served as a stimulus for the defence industry in Turkey and a revolution has taken place in this sector in the last 20 years, Turkish Vice President ...