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“There is no Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, but a Turkish Republic of Cyprus,” Turkish parliamentary defence committee chairman and ruling AK Party MP Hulusi Akar said on Saturday. Akar, ...

Efforts to gain international recognition for the north “remain without any support whatsoever”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, the 41st anniversary of the north’s unilateral declaration of independence. ...

Secondary school students will be out on the streets today to stage their annual protest against the anniversary of the establishment of the pseudo-state. The Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash ...

Turkish officials on Wednesday issued statements celebrating the 40th anniversary of the declaration of the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)’. Among the officials attending the celebrations in the north ...

Hundreds of students took to the streets across Cyprus on Wednesday, brandishing Cypriot flags and chanting slogans, as celebrations to mark 40 years since the north unilaterally declared the ‘Turkish Republic ...

Celebrations to mark 40 years since the north unilaterally declared itself as the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)’ began there on Tuesday. Ahead of the anniversary on November 15, Turkish Cypriot ...

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev referred to Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar as the “President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” following a bilateral meeting, it emerged on Monday. The ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces 10 years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was postponed in court on Friday. The court ordered adjourned ...

The north’s chief prosecutor has filed a case against left-wing Turkish Cypriot journalist and trade unionist Ali Kismir for “insulting and defaming the morality of the TRNC Security forces ...

Authorities in the north have called for the establishment of an Azerbaijani ‘embassy’ in an effort to establish diplomatic relations, Turkish Cypriot media said on Tuesday. The chairman of the “...

Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir said on Friday that he would be taking the ‘government’ in the north to ‘court’ over their decision to cancel his company’s contract at ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday dismissed Turkey’s comments which rejected the EU’s stance over the contentious observer status given to the ‘TRNC’ as an entity at the Organisation ...

The Organisation of Turkic States has accepted the ‘TRNC’ as a member state with an observer status, as it kicked off its summit in Uzbekistan on Friday. The move sparked ...

Ioannis Kasoulides’ first experience of government came almost 30 years ago when he was appointed spokesman of the first Clerides administration in 1993, while he served as foreign minister in the second. ...

Celebrations in the north to mark the 48th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of July 20, 1974 began on Tuesday, but it looks very unlikely that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will ...

In a message to mark 38 years since the unilateral declaration of independence in the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday said the people there live in their own ...