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The Turkish Cypriot Federation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (Dev-Is) has begun registering retired Turkish Cypriots who worked in the Republic to the health system Gesy. Dev-Is explained they had been ...

Numbers could be up as much as 40 per cent since 2011 The population of the north may have increased by as much as 40 per cent since the last census in 2011, compared ...

By Tom Cleaver and Nikolaos Prakas Hundreds of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of northern Nicosia on Friday evening in a mass anti-‘government’ protest. The protest was general ...

The north’s ‘government’ on Tuesday blocked the creation of a ‘parliamentary’ investigation committee into the circumstances regarding the banning of 12 Turkish Cypriots from Turkey. Opposition politicians had put forward ...

Repatriation is underway of over one hundred Turkish Cypriots from Gaza, authorities in the north announced on Friday. Information provided by Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister, Ahmet Yildiz, put the number ...

There are 104 Turkish Cypriots inside Gaza, Turkey’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmet Yildiz said on Thursday. The 104 Turkish Cypriots are among around 700 people waiting to be evacuated to Turkey, he ...

Shaziye Azimkar, the Turkish Cypriot woman who saved a man’s life after he suffered a cardiac arrest on Tuesday, spoke about her experience on Wednesday. Speaking to Turkish Cypriot ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met with leaders of the north’s major political parties on Wednesday morning to discuss his trip to New York. Tatar visited New York on ...

Excavation works have started in the Aloa village, where dozens of Turkish Cypriots were killed ahead of the second leg of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus 1974, the Turkish Cypriot member ...

A raft of high-profile Turkish Cypriots have signed a petition aimed at halting the case against left-wing journalist Ali Kismir. Kismir stands accused of “insulting and defaming the morality of ...

Sefer Bugra Altundag, the man accused of killing 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur, was sentenced to three years in military prison on Monday for “violating a military base” ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu both condemned the attack on the Koprulu Haci Ibrahim Aga Mosque in Limassol on Saturday. Tatar described ...

The trial of Sefer Bugra Altundag, who stands accused of murdering 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur in January, began in Trikomo on Wednesday. The trial had been adjourned ...

The two men accused of killing British Turkish Cypriot Huseyin Mavideniz were on Saturday imprisoned for a maximum period of three months pending a trial. Mehmet Yazici and Dogu Omer ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a case brought forward by Turkish Cypriots in mixed marriages with Turkish nationals seeking Cyprus citizenship for their children, citing that the individuals involved ...

Tuesday marked 59 years since the bombing of Tylliria in 1964 when, from August 7 to 9, Turkish air forces dropped napalm bombs on villages in the area. “It is a sad day, which ...

Controversy broke out on Thursday following the Famagusta mayor’s invitation to Turkish Cypriots to an anti-occupation event which will take place in the municipality on Saturday. Elam, Edek and ...

The interior ministry is looking to rationalise the rental practices of Turkish Cypriot properties on Mackenzie beach in Larnaca, where holders have been paying very low rent for years. The ...

The interior ministry has admitted it does not have a reliable database of the Turkish Cypriot properties they administrate By Efi Xanthou On July 13 the House of Representatives approved the ...

MPs on Tuesday were considering the approval of a €345,000 supplementary budget to compensate an American citizen of Turkish Cypriot origin for loss of use of his property where a petrol ...

A group calling itself the Uncredentialeds, which demands equal citizenship rights for children of mixed marriages, marched from the north to parliament on Saturday afternoon to highlight the problems they ...