Street artist in love with Nicosia
A street art project in the north tells the tales of people who have coloured the city. AGNIESZKA RAKOCZY meets a man determined to use art to reach people and ...
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Man in Nicosia jail self-harmed to avoid extradition to Russia
Cyprus accused of ignoring UN committee’s request to hold off extraditing Russian businessman
Lawyers for a Russian businessman imprisoned in Nicosia are demanding answers as to why Cypriot authorities ...
Turkish Cypriot collector aims to leave his mark
In a man who has cleaned up a cemetary in Bellapais and is the father of casinos in the north, AGNIESZKA RAKOCZY finds a man frustrated by the unchanging view ...
The Players: Ersin Tatar
Ersin Tatar, a staunch supporter of a two-state solution, was elected 'Prime Minister' in October 2020 ousting incumbent pro-solution Mustafa Akinci.
‘We are slowly dying here’
Turkish Cypriot traders don’t know how long more they can hang on
A YEAR after the Ledra Street/Lokmaci crossing was closed there is still no sign that any ...
Easy to draw parallels between Denktash and Tatar
With the chance of negotiations again becoming a reality, who is the man who leads the Turkish Cypriots? Agnieszka Rakoczy says he is seen as fast minded and innovative but ...
A focus on maths
The youngest person to ever get a GCSE in maths now teaches at a university in the north although being the youngest person in the room has never bothered him. ...
The hidden treasure in an army camp
Writer Elsie Slonim who passed away aged 103 this week was one of Nicosia’s best hidden secrets
Tall, elegant, with strikingly beautiful blue eyes and a vivacious laugh, Elsie Slonim ...
Writer who lived in Turkish army camp dies aged 103
Elsie Slonim, nee Kalmar, aged 103, passed away after a short illness in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
She died in her house in the Turkish Cypriot army camp in ...