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By Tom Cleaver Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said the Turkish Cypriots’ will “is highly respected by us” as federal Cyprus advocate Tufan Erhurman was sworn in as ...

The “blue folder” which the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July were carrying while walking around the village of Gastria, near Trikomo, was on Friday ...

Turkish Cypriots were on Tuesday incensed Turkish nationalist political party MHP leader Devlet Bahceli’s comments as he twice called for northern Cyprus to join Turkey in the aftermath of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader-elect Tufan Erhurman received his official mandate certificate on Monday after pulling off a landslide victory over his soon-to-be predecessor Ersin Tatar at Sunday’s election. The certificate ...

The military court case against the five Greek Cypriots arrested in the north was on Wednesday adjourned until November 7. It had initially expected that a verdict would be handed down ...

Sunday will see Turkish Cypriots head to the polls to elect a leader for the 14th time overall, and for the ninth time since northern Cyprus’ unilateral declaration of independence ...

Former foreign minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis on Friday threw her support behind pro-reunification Turkish Cypriot leadership candidate Tufan Erhurman ahead of Sunday’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election. “Good luck, Tufan Erhurman! ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday stressed that he does not “intervene in matters of the judiciary”, after Israeli property developer Simon Aykut had the previous day pled guilty to a ...

German car manufacturer Audi’s authorised dealer in the north, the Debreli group, on Friday announced that it would replace potentially faulty airbags manufactured by Japanese company Takata for free. ...

Ozgur Ozel, the leader of Turkey’s largest opposition political party the CHP, on Thursday said his country must respect the will of the Turkish Cypriot people ahead of next ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli, one of Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s key supporters as he vies for re-election to the role on October 19, on Friday described ...

Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman holds a lead of just shy of 10 per cent over incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, according to a poll released by ...

The defence in the military court case of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July will call its next witness from Turkey, defence lawyer Ugur ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar is leading the current polls at 41.8 per cent, compared to opponent Tufan Erhurman’s 40.1 per cent, ahead of elections in the north on October 19, Turkish ...

One Turkish Cypriot election tradition which is little known outside of the Turkish Cypriot community is the prevalence of election music. Typically, each major candidate will come out with a ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Friday said that opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman would win next month’s election “by a long way” if ...

The north’s ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu on Friday said teachers should apologise to him over the months-long saga which enveloped the north’s education system over the ruling coalition’...

The entry and exit records of the Strovilia crossing point, through which the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July had entered the north, were the ...

The heads of the three political parties which make up the north’s ruling coalition on Wednesday met Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz in Ankara. The delegation, made up of ‘...

The case regarding the alleged illegal entry of five Greek Cypriots into the north in July continued at northern Nicosia’s military court on Thursday, with the defendant who was ...

Five Greek Cypriots who tried to visit their properties in northern Cyprus remain illegally detained by the Turkish-controlled authorities, the country’s Foreign Minister, Konstantinos Kombos, said on Tuesday. He ...

A total of 252 portacabins are to be used as classrooms when Turkish Cypriot children return to school at the end of the summer holiday on Monday, the north’s ‘education ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Friday night decried the resolution passed by the European parliament earlier in the week on the arrests of five Greek Cypriots in the north, ...

The north will be cut off from Turkish water for four days from Tuesday due to a fault at the pumping station in the Kyrenia district village of Panagra, where ...