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A man arrested in north Nicosia for attempting to use a counterfeit €50 note at the Saray casino said on Tuesday he had obtained the money from a bureau de change ...

Cyprus will wield its diplomatic tools over Turkey’s attempts to have the north recognised, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday amid controversy surrounding the Organisation of Turkic States (...

Police arrested a 49-year-old woman on Sunday, as a suspect for promoting property sales in the north on Greek Cypriot land. The woman, from an EU country, was arrested at ...

Nicosia condemned on Saturday Turkish attempts to promote the breakaway regime, in violation of international legality, noting that the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) is once again being used by ...

Other countries are “expected” to recognise the north, Turkish presidential foreign policy advisory board member Aygun Attar said on Friday. Attar was speaking to the Turkish Anadolu Agency ahead of ...

The north is set to increase the cost of car insurance and road tax for young people, ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Thursday. Speaking to Gundem Kibris TV, he ...

A woman has reported her husband for kidnapping their three-year-old child and fleeing to the north, it emerged on Friday. The child’s mother Martina Malikzada, 27, an asylum seeker from ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar called a meeting to discuss the Cyprus problem and the recent reman of Turkish-Israeli businessman Simon Mistriel Aykut, in custody for developing on Greek Cypriot ...

A total of 22 Turkish Cypriot teachers appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Thursday in the latest hearing of a case into an alleged “battering” of police officers during a ...

Falling revenue for Turkish Cypriot farmers was put partly down to the fact that people now elect to spend their savings on holidays instead of traditional sacrificial animals by the ...

A row over racism has erupted in the north on Tuesday night and Wednesday after a lifeguard at Famagusta’s popular Glapsides beach said he had banned Pakistanis and “blacks” ...

Israeli Simon Mistriel Aykut, the director of Afik Group, a property developer in the north, will remain in custody for an additional six days, as decided by the Nicosia District ...

The north’s ‘government’ is to put forward a new law which would allow for undocumented migrants arriving there a pathway to obtain work permits, ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz said ...

Soldiers mounted on horses are to be stationed outside Ersin Tatar’s new official residence in Ayios Dhometios when it opens, according to reports circulating on Tuesday. Turkish Cypriot news ...

The north’s chamber of environmental engineers on Monday sounded the alarm over the prospect of fires breaking out at the north’s landfill in Koutsoventis due to increased temperatures ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Tuesday called for the north’s ‘parliament’ to pass a resolution calling for a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem. He spoke ...

Four people appeared in court in the north on Friday, accused of having attempted to coordinate a crossing to the Republic using counterfeit German identity cards. Two of the detainees, ...

Turkish Cypriot farmers smashed the gate of the ‘prime minister’s’ office on Tuesday on their second day of protest. Farmers from across the north had descended on northern Nicosia ...

The north’s minimum wage was raised to a gross figure of 34,070TL (€975) per month late on Monday night, bringing the figure up to just €25 lower than that of the ...

But an exception is made if the buyers are Turks The Turkish Cypriot administration is working on a set of legal amendments to limit the number of properties that foreigners ...

The north is to begin importing meat from the Netherlands with the aim of reducing the cost for consumers, ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel announced on Friday. He said offers to ...

Turkish Cypriot doctors on Saturday warned of unlicenced individuals performing hair transplants in the north. According to the Cyprus Turkish medical association (KTTB), police on Friday carried out a raid ...

Two high-profile suspects in the north’s fake diploma scandal investigation appeared in court in Morphou again on Thursday. Investigations are still centring around the town’s now infamous Cyprus ...

A total of 30 kilograms of smuggled lamb meat was seized at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point by Turkish Cypriot police on Tuesday. They explained on Wednesday that they had pulled ...