A 29-year-old Turkish Cypriot man has reportedly kidnapped his two-year-old child from its British mother’s home in Limassol after illegally crossing from the north, police said on Wednesday.

According to the police, the incident occurred at around 7.50am on Wednesday morning when the father entered the mother’s house and together with a second person forcibly grabbed the child and left to the north.

Limassol deputy police chief Lefteris Kyriakou said that an arrest warrant is expected to be issued for the father, who is already subject to another arrest warrant in relation to a domestic abuse incident that was documented in 2025.

Investigations into the case, as well as into how the man illegally crossed to the south and later returned to the north are ongoing.