#Turkey

Air connectivity and tourism make up 20 per cent of Cyprus’ GDP, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Tuesday, as he criticised Turkey’s increasing violations into Cypriot airspace. His speech, ...

Turkey will on Friday dispatch a drillship to waters off its southern coast, but outside Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone. Turkish authorities have issued a Naxtex – or marine advisory – reserving for ...

A solution to the Cyprus problem cannot be found after half a century of negotiations, thus cementing a two-state solution, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Tuesday. “It is ...

A swathe of the Karpasia peninsula is being carved into a military zone at the orders of the ‘government’ in the north, reports said on Monday. The area will extend ...

By Dimitri Gonis Hyper-nationalism is predicated on the notion of ‘specialness’. At its core lies an intrinsic hostility towards anything and anyone that challenges the narrative of racial purity and ...

Cyprus could supply the European Union with natural gas much earlier, if Brussels strengthened its support for the development of the supply infrastructure, President Nicos Anastasiades said in an interview ...

Fears that worse is yet to come in north in protest over Erdogan’s policies By Esra Aygin Northern Cyprus is slipping out of the hands of the Turks, warned ...

Turkish Cypriot activist Munur Rahvancioglu’s case over being barred from entering Turkey has been taken to court, the Independence Road movement, which he is deputy secretary-general of, announced on ...

Saudi Arabia and Turkey are discussing Riyadh placing a $5 billion deposit at Turkey’s central bank, a Saudi Ministry of Finance spokesperson said on Tuesday. “We are in final discussion ...

Kurds living in Cyprus held a small protest and a series of meetings with government officials on Tuesday, in the aftermath of airstrikes by Turkey in Syria over the weekend. ...

A meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is a continuation of the government’s effort to create the conditions for the resumption of dialogue on the ...

A Turkish quarry company started operations in the mountains of Kantara a few weeks ago, after being given the go-ahead by authorities in the north, according to the newspaper Ozgü...

A request by the Turkish Cypriot side to conclude a “status of the forces agreement” (SOFA) with Unficyp has been rejected by the UN Secretariat, China’s ambassador, Liu Yantao, ...

Eight Turkish Cypriots have been barred as of Friday from entering Turkey, after Ankara branded some of them as suspected national security threats and then required them to obtain a ...

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has called on Turkish Cypriots to support a two-state solution, Turkish Cypriot media said on Monday. His comments follow a growing spat over the ‘TRNC’...

A Turkish prosecutor requested on Friday that a court convict and impose a political ban on Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a popular rival of President Tayyip Erdogan, for insulting public ...

Turkish Cypriot media and opposition on Thursday saw Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay’s statements about the Islamic Kulliye project as threatening and an intervention into their culture. According to ...

Under heavy security, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay arrived in the north on Wednesday to visit the construction site of the controversial ‘Kulliye’ project, warning dissenters are at odds with ...

Ankara’s policy toward its neighbours can only be described as being driven by ‘insanity’, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Monday following talks in Athens with his Greek counterpart. ...

How the Cyprus problem will play out in the near future will likely depend on the outcome of the island’s impending presidential election in February and the new political ...

The European Union needs to do more about third countries violating sanctions on Russia, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday attending a European Council meeting in Brussels, and alluding to ...

Turkey’s Oruc Reis seismological research vessel will begin a new round of gas searches in the Eastern Mediterranean, according to the country’s media reports. The vessel – which had ...

Turkey’s main opposition group said on Friday it would ask the top court to throw out new media legislation that would jail people for spreading “misinformation”, calling the measures ...

Flights from Moscow to Tymbou (Ercan) airport in the north of the island will start in March 2023, the Turkish Cypriot ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Friday, and insisted that ...