#Varosha

The House of Representatives unanimously condemned statements made by Unal Ustel, the north’s ‘prime minister’, that the north will move to reopen the entirety of Varosha after local ‘elections’ ...

Over 7,000 Greek Cypriots have applied to the Immovable Property Commission (IPC), according to the north’s ‘ambassador’ to Ankara. Ismet Korukoglu, in wide-ranging statements to Turkish media, hit out against ...

Varosha is the guiding light to a solution, and if this light goes out Cyprus will hurtle towards division, independent presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades said on Thursday. Speaking at a ...

The Famagusta mayor on Monday called for meetings with representatives of the five UN security council members over the latest threats that more areas of Varosha will be reopened. Mayor ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on Friday confirmed reports there will be a further partial reopening in areas of Varosha, namely that of Ayios Memnonas. Speaking to CyBC radio, Kasoulides said ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s bullying of Cyprus and Greece has led to a deterioration in Turkey’s relations with the European Union, according to the latest European Commission report. ...

Famagusta Mayor Simos Ioannou is seeking urgent meetings with the ambassadors of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council after Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar announced on Friday ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Friday that in the coming months they would be opening a number of ‘municipal’ and ‘government’ buildings in Varosha. Speaking ahead of celebrations ...

The forced division of an EU member state is not a Cyprus question, but a European question, the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said on Friday in an ...

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola will be in Cyprus on Friday to discuss the latest gas find in the island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) among other issues during a ...

Famagusta is the beacon of the Cyprus solution said presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades during his visit at the occupied part of the district. Early on Sunday morning Demetriades had a ...

The people of Famagusta are tired of 48 years of false hopes of return and everything the government is doing is leading nowhere, the mayor of the occupied town has said. ...

The only way forward in Cyprus is dialogue and there is no alternative, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has said. Addressing an annual event on Saturday night in the Famagusta region, ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ has claimed that Varosha is part of the break-away province’s territory, and the future of the fenced-off town is a decision for the Turkish ...

Turkey’s foreign ministry has characterised the decision by the UN Security Council to extend the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus as “unfair and unrealistic”. “The failure ...

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) by another six months up to January 31 of next year. ...

The Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations, Ambassador Andreas Hadjichrysanthou has expressed disappointment over the UNSG’s recent reports on the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) ...

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola on Friday reiterated the institution’s condemnation of Turkey’s continued violations of Security Council resolutions on Famagusta. She was responding to correspondence ...

Trust between the two sides in Cyprus is at a low point and without rebuilding it, it will be difficult to move forward with the political process, a UN official ...

Disy leader and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou visited Varosha on Wednesday and warned that if the city is lost then Cyprus, too, is lost. “Dear Varoshians, our Varosha is the ...

Cyprus cannot fall into the trap of “revisionist rhetoric” adopted by the Turkish president to serve his own purposes, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters following a ...

After meeting the Famagusta mayor Simos Ioannou, who informed him about illegal actions in the area, Italian MP and rapporteur of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy Piero Fassino ...

Italian MP and rapporteur of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, Piero Fassino, was informed about the illegal actions of the Turkish Cypriot ‘regime’ in Famagusta Monday afternoon, in ...

An Italian MP met officials in Nicosia on Monday as he prepares a report about Turkey’s occupation of Varosha for the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). ...