#northern Cyprus

Those held responsible for the deaths of 35 Cypriots when the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed during last year’s earthquakes “will get the punishment they deserve”, ...

The Cyprus government and the Turkish Cypriot leadership are in a furious row over a decision by tour operator Tui to stop daytrips to the north, with leader Ersin Tatar ...

The Turkish Cypriot Famagusta municipality on Wednesday announced it had issued a total of five fines for drivers of sewage tankers which had been caught dumping raw sewage at the ...

A shipment of 12,000 tonnes of diesel is expected to arrive in the north on Wednesday to power the Teknecik power station, as repair work continues on its broken and dysfunctional ...

A Georgian woman was arrested in the north, after it was found she was wanted by Interpol, the Turkish Cypriot press have reported. The woman, Shehriban Toptal, is wanted for ...

Serdal Gunduz, the 30-per-cent shareholder and secretary-general of the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou, who stands accused of 98 charges of fraud, falsifying documents, money laundering, ...

Environmentalists have once again raised questions over the validity of analysis reports conducted by the north’s ‘health ministry’ declaring the seawater off the north’s beaches to be clean. ...

A 33-year-old Syrian mother of six was arrested in the north in the early hours of Tuesday morning, it emerged on Wednesday, after attempting to travel to the Republic of ...

The privatisation of the Kyrenia port is “in the final stage”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Wednesday. Speaking to Kibris TV, he said the ‘government’ has “...

Three men who had been found guilty on 17 charges each in relation to the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Halil Falyali and his chauffeur Murat Demirtas were all handed long ...

The new Turkish ambassador in the north Yasin Ekrem Serim has taken out a court order to demand that three news outlets in the north delete articles which were written ...

Turkish Cypriots “cannot be linobambaki”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Thursday. Speaking on the 453rd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus in 1571, he described August ...

The north will soon require all property owners who rent their properties on short term bases on tourism websites such as Airbnb to register their properties with the ‘government’ as ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Wednesday announced three teenagers had been arrested in connection with the theft of a set of traffic lights in Kyrenia. The lights had been stolen ...

The Republic of Cyprus’ customs department on Wednesday announced they had found and confiscated more than two tonnes of meat which were headed for the north. The meat was found ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ Hasan Tacoy promised to “dispel the black clouds” in the north’s largest political party, the UBP, when he formally submitted his candidacy for its leadership on ...

A Syrian national appeared in court in the north on Thursday after having been arrested for crossing illegally from the Republic and then reportedly asking the Turkish Cypriot police for ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci on Tuesday invoked Greek mythology in a social media post criticising corruption in the north. His intervention centred on the “fake diploma scandal”, which ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Azerbaijan’s approach to recognising the north “has reached the same position” as Turkey’s. Erdogan was speaking at Ankara’s Esenboga ...

A Greek national appeared in court in the north on Monday, accused of having left for the Republic via the Ledras street crossing point without having gone through the passport ...

Police have secured an arrest warrant against a German property promoter living in the north, who was expected to provide testimony in an ongoing investigation into the usurpation of Greek ...

A German, living in the north, is due to the questioned on Wednesday in the Republic, regarding the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property. The German suspect, the third in a ...

Israeli Simon Mistriel Aykut, the director of Afik Group, a property developer of Greek Cypriot property in the north, will remain in custody until a court issues a decision on ...

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 ...