Tom Cleaver

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar slammed the European Union on Friday following the release of the EU-Turkey report on Wednesday. “The EU has become a prisoner of the Greek Cypriot ...

An explosion occurred outside a shop in the Makedonitissa area of Nicosia in the early hours of Friday morning. Police said the explosion occurred at around 2:30am and caused damage ...

In today’s episode, a court decision awarding over €780,000 to a depositor who lost his Laiki Bank savings due to the 2013 ‘haircut’ ignited a wave of reactions. Meanwhile, President Nikos ...

Ersin Tatar’s office is set to be given a 318 million TL (€10.3m) budget for 2024, as part of the north’s ‘state’ budget begin to be discussed in ‘parliament’. The ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers staged a protest outside the north’s ‘parliament’ and ‘education ministry’ on Thursday, calling on ‘minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu to resign. The protests were held over a range ...

By Tom Cleaver and Nikolaos Prakas The interior ministry said on Thursday that they agree on the recommendations for stricter checks made in an audit office report on golden visa ...

An official request has been submitted to the north’s ‘labour ministry’ on Thursday that the minimum wage be raised. The request was submitted by the Cyprus Turkish trade unions ...

The Republic of Ireland on Thursday donated €25,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), taking the total of donations made by the country since 2006 to €450,000. The CMP said the money “...

Municipalities are in need of a total of €14 million in emergency financial assistance, Larnaca Mayor and Municipalities’ Union chairman Andreas Vyras said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Municipalities’ Union’s ...

One person has been killed and four more have been injured after a Russian missile hit a Cypriot-owned ship entering the port of Odessa, in Ukraine, on Wednesday. The ship, ...

Friday prayers in the north are to be dedicated to the people of Palestine, following an announcement from the Religious Affairs Directorate. “The days we are going through will take ...

A Scottish man was remanded in custody for 24 hours in Paphos on Thursday after being accused of stealing over €5,000 worth of goods from a snack bar he had rented. After ...

The two men arrested at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport on Wednesday have “nothing to do with the murders of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos and Alexis Mavromichalis”, police spokesman Christos Andreou ...

Environment Commissioner Maria Panayiotou said on Wednesday that the latest round of government-sponsored tree planting initiatives, which involves planting 11,000 trees and shrubs, “is not just ordinary tree planting”. “It is ...

Some schools in the north receive just 0.12 toilet rolls per pupil per year from the ‘education ministry’, according to Cyprus Turkish Teachers’ Union (Ktos) General Secretary Burak Mavish. Speaking to ...

The government is taking “steady steps” to modernise and strengthen the National Guard, Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas said on Wednesday. Giorgallas was speaking at a celebration held by the Air ...

House president Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday that parliament “is sending a resounding message of no tolerance for bullying”, as a bill to criminalise bullying at school, at work and ...

The police force is to be modernised, upgraded and reorganised in line with the recommendations of the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (Greco), Justice Minister Anna Procopiou ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar met with Pakistani Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar on Wednesday. The pair met on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO)’s summit ...

Controversy has surfaced in the north over payments made to a private company for the rent of the Ayia Anastasia church in Lapithos, which currently operates as a nursing home. ...

Six teenagers were expelled from the Paphos Technical School on Tuesday due to “their delinquent behaviour”, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported. The school’s leaders said the children were “...

Almost a third of Cypriots are still smokers, according to statistics compiled by research company Marc released on Tuesday. Marc, acting on behalf of Philip Morris Cyprus, interviewed a total ...

One in seven people living in the north are surviving below the poverty line, according to figures released by the north’s Statistics Institute on Tuesday. The figures released also ...

Turkey donated $100,000 (€93,637) to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday, taking the total amount the country has donated to almost €1.4 million. The donation was announced by the CMP’s ...