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Two Turkish Cypriot ‘MPs’ threw order papers at each other in ‘parliament’ on Monday as tensions rose in a debate over a budget for the Cyprus Turkish Dairy Industry Institution (...

The walls of the historical Venetian Palace in Famagusta’s old town are being reinforced, after some feared they may collapse. An agreement was signed by the north’s Famagusta ...

Yialousa high school has been reduced to a flooded, muddy quagmire after rain hit the Karpasia region on Thursday morning. The school is currently partly housed in portacabins after the ...

The north declared a three-day period of “national mourning” on Thursday following a deadly bombing of the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Baptist hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. ‘Prime minister’ Unal Ustel announced ...

The north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek) cancelled a tender for the purchase of two new generators on Wednesday after no bids for the tender were received. The tender would have ...

A third lewd video involving Japanese women appeared on the official Facebook page of the north’s ‘agriculture ministry’ at around midday on Tuesday. The video, the most explicit yet, ...

Five people have been arrested in the north as part of a “prostitution operation” conducted by Turkish Cypriot police. Police found three women, all citizens of Nigeria, in an apartment ...

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Sibel Siber was arrested on Thursday as part of the ongoing investigation into the “fake prescription scandal”. Siber, a qualified doctor, was arrested alongside a ...

Unal Ustel, the north’s ‘prime minister’, said on Tuesday evening that he knows the north’s population, but that he cannot say. “We know the population,” he said, speaking ...

Turkish Cypriot journalist and editor Sener Levent was acquitted in northern Nicosia on Wednesday of “insulting a foreign statesman” and “driving a wedge between the TRNC and Turkey”. The case ...

A Muslim religious school will be built in Famagusta, after the north’s ‘cabinet’ ratified a proposal made by its ‘education ministry’, which was published in the ‘official gazette’ on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has touted a potential name change for the north, potentially dropping the word “north” from its name altogether. The north has called itself the ‘Turkish ...

Businesses in the Kyrenia harbour said on Wednesday they will not reopen when renovations to the harbour are complete unless demands made to the north’s ‘tourism ministry’ are met. ...

Erhan Arikli, the north’s ‘transport minister’ on Saturday repeated for a third time controversial comments wherein he branded people criticising him on social media as “mentally ill”, hitting out ...

Library membership in the north has increased by 25 per cent since last year, according to the north’s culture department director Sirin Zaimagaoglu. There are now a total of 2,950 members ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli has doubled down on controversial comments made on social media website Facebook on Friday, wherein he accused other users of being “mentally ill.” ...

The north’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 13.3 per cent in 2022, according to the north’s statistics agency. The total GDP stood just shy of 73.9 billion TL (€2.6 billion), which ...

Turkey’s National Security Council on Thursday called for a written agreement between the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ and the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) regarding relations between ...

Serdar Denktash, the son of late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, said on Wednesday he is considering establishing a new political party. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, he confirmed that ...

Another Greek Cypriot has been arrested in the north after attempting to pass the Ayios Dometios crossing point with counterfeit car insurance documents. The man, aged 42, was arrested on Monday ...

A Greek Cypriot appeared in a Turkish Cypriot court on Monday accused of using counterfeit car insurance documents while entering the north at Ayios Dometios. The man was arrested at 10:24...

Two people have been arrested in the north after allegedly “entering the database” of the north’s ‘interior ministry’ and giving residence permits to 103 people. The pair, who are both ...

The north’s first 4G mobile network is set to be switched on Thursday, with the north’s ‘government’ set to earn 1.25 billion TL (€43 million) from the associated tendering process. ‘...

There should be a “British city” built in the north, according to the chairman of the Cyprus Turkish chamber of commerce UK chairman Muhammet Yasarata. Yasarata made the suggestion at ...