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Human rights organisations and NGOs in the north on Friday are set to hold a demonstration outside a court in Trikomo, where a 21-year-old suspected of murdering 16-year-old girl Zehie ...

Turkish Cypriots civil engineers and architects will be going on strike outside the ‘parliament’ on Tuesday, following a proposal from ‘MPs’ to abolish the necessary approvals from the professionals on ...

With our vote we must send the right message to the Turkish Cypriots Çırak is a Turkish word and literally means an apprentice craftsman, a craftsman’s assistant. But, in ...

The 21-year-old man suspected of murdering a 16-year-old girl in the north surrendered himself to the Greek Cypriot police late on Wednesday. After the crime, Sefer Bugra Altundag fled to ...

A 17-year-old Turkish Cypriot boy, who was hit by a bus in the north a few days ago, is in a critical but stable condition, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said ...

From the new mufti to illegal cults, the north is being swamped by Islamisation A series of revelations since the beginning of this year have shaken the secular and modern ...

Cyprus must adhere to EU law and stop violating the human rights of thousands of Turkish Cypriots seeking the republic’s citizenship, Akel MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek said in a statement ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition parties, non-governmental organisations, and unions took to the streets on Monday to protest the Islamification of the north, after religious authorities pushed Islamic rhetoric at mosque courses ...

The Turkish Cypriot villages in Paphos abandoned to hunters, hikers and hogs Perched atop his tractor as if it were a steed, the only regular of this remote and forgotten ...

Ali Bizden, adviser to former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, said on Saturday that he and his family were under intense pressure from Turkey, during the time leadership changed in ...

Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir has sold his newspaper Kibris to a Turkish company with ties to Ankara’s ruling AKP party, reports in the north said on Wednesday. In ...

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 ...

Journalist Kazim Denizci was arrested in the north on charges of aiding a terrorist organisation, reports said on Wednesday. According to the newspaper Avrupa, Denizci, who writes for their paper ...

Mixed marriage is not a crime was the slogan for dozens of demonstrators who protested on Saturday the difficulties faced by children of Turkish Cypriots and Turks living in the ...

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 ...

Women are most affected by the Republic of Cyprus’ delay in giving IDs to children born to a mixed marriage in the north, the group ‘Uncredentialeds’ said on Wednesday, calling ...

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’...

Nicosia district court on Friday issued a detention order for three men, aged 53, 38 and 36, in connection with the case of the premeditated murder of a 41-year-old inmate at the central ...

Police on Thursday arrested three more persons in connection with the murder of a 41-year-old inmate at the Central Prisons. The three individuals being held are all male, aged 53, 38 and 36. ...

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 ...

Three more inmates were arrested in connection with the murder of a Turkish Cypriot at the Nicosia central prisons on October 27, police said on Sunday. Along with the three, eight ...

Children of marriages between Turkish Cypriots and Turkish nationals and their supporters will demonstrate on November 19 in front of the interior ministry over delays and denials to grant them Republic ...

A new EU scholarship programme office was inaugurated in the north by the European Commission and Goethe Institute on Thursday, to bring Turkish Cypriots closer to the EU, an announcement ...