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Renovations at northern Nicosia’s central Selimiye mosque will be complete by the beginning of the Holy month of Ramadan, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar was informed on Tuesday. He ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday called for construction on the planned road which would link the buffer zone village of Pyla with Arsos in the north to restart. ...

Trade union leaders and opposition figures in the north on Friday night expressed fury at the new minimum wage, which was announced following a meeting of the minimum wage determination ...

Lawyers representing journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of having “insulted” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, on Thursday requested that the case against ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader and former ‘prime minister’ Tufan Erhurman leads the way in the first poll of the year to ask Turkish Cypriots who they plan ...

A Greek Cypriot taxi driver appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Tuesday after having crossed to the north at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point with two women in the ...

The trial of Turkish-Jewish land developer Simon Aykut, who was arrested in early June and is accused of occupying Greek Cypriot properties in the occupied regions, has been rescheduled by ...

The head of the north’s citrus export company Cypfruvex, which is accused of having trafficked hundreds of Bangladeshi nationals and left them to live in squalid conditions in camps ...

Harsh words flew back and forth on Friday over plans to upgrade the road linking the village of Rizokarpaso and the Apostolos Andreas monastery, with the north’s ‘transport minister’ ...

A record high number of passengers used the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport in 2024, the airport’s holding company T&T announced on Thursday.  In total, exactly 4,842,134 passengers either ...

The international isolation suffered by the Turkish Cypriot people since 1963 is a “crime against humanity”, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday. “Those who remain silent about this situation ...

A donkey found to have been shot multiple times by a hunter is in a “critical condition” after being taken in for treatment by the Tashkent nature park in the ...

A bill which would have increased the punishment for animal fighting in the north was rejected in ‘parliament’ on Monday, with independent ‘MP’ Hasan Tosunoglu insisting that cock fighting is “...

A total of 61 girls under the age of 18 years old in the north gave birth last year – a rate of more than one per week – the Cyprus Turkish medical association (...

A man was shot in the face while out hunting near the Karpas peninsula villages of Eptakomi and Galateia, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Monday. The man, named as 44...

The north’s ‘government’ on Monday formalised its plans to move northern Nicosia’s court buildings from their current location in Nicosia’s old town to the under-construction ‘government’ complex ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ on Friday night passed its ‘state’ budget for 2025, with 29 votes in favour and nine votes against. The budget foresees a total of 136.28 billion TL (€3.75bn) worth ...

The radar system at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport was broken on Friday night. The north’s civil aviation department’s director Mustafa Soli confirmed that the system was ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday reaffirmed his support for a new crossing point to be opened in Mia Milia, on the eastern edge of Nicosia. Speaking after a ...

The Nicosia court on Wednesday postponed until March next year, the case brought against a German real estate agent charged on 44 counts related to the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property ...

Turkish Cypriot left-wing activist Munur Rahvancioglu on Wednesday announced that he will appeal his denial of entry to Turkey at the country’s constitutional court. Rahvancioglu is one of around 15 ...

The north’s ‘government’ was on Tuesday night challenged in ‘parliament’ over its “silence” regarding the ongoing trial of Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in jail ...

The Turkish government on Tuesday announced that it had decreased the rate of import tax on goods entering the country from the north to 30 per cent – the same rate paid ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Tuesday launched an investigation into the death of a Russian national in Kyrenia, characterising the man’s death as “suspicious”. The man lived in Kyrenia ...