Tom Cleaver

The Cypriot government on Monday confirmed that it had proposed to the Turkish government that it open Turkish ports to Cypriot-flagged ships in exchange for easier access to European visas ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s defamation lawsuit against pro-opposition newspaper Yeniduzen was on Monday adjourned until May 6. Tatar is suing the newspaper, its then editor-in-chief Cenk Mutluyakali, and columnist ...

The status of Cyprus was a key part of a deal brokered by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United States President Donald Trump to allow Turkey to arrest Istanbul ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar launched a second attack on President Nikos Christodoulides over the latter’s statements over Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asking, “who the hell are you, ...

The matter of what happens after death has been a topic of fierce debate in recent years, with Paphos the scene of intensive efforts to construct the island’s first ...

The final day of the second week of protests in the north against the ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by children at public schools saw ...

One piece of legislation will not be enough to solve the issue of crimes surrounding Easter bonfires, known as lambradjies, and other explosives, which were reported around Cyprus over the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday lambasted President Nikos Christodoulides for “provocative” statements the latter had made about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Cyprus problem. “I regret ...

Employers and industrialists’ federation (Oev) chairman Antonis Antoniou on Friday expressed his distaste for the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), saying his organisation believes it “should have disappeared”. He was speaking after ...

A British tour operator which sold holidays to northern Cyprus, among other destinations, closed on Thursday, with all future bookings cancelled. The operator, which traded under the name Balkan Holidays, ...

The criminal case against former Transport Minister Marios Demetriades in relation to “suspicious” naturalisations of new Cypriot citizens under Cyprus’ citizenship through investment scheme, commonly known as the ‘golden passport’ ...

Coastal engineer Xenia Loizidou on Friday slammed the government’s plan to import mobile desalination plants from the United Arab Emirates to solve Cyprus’ water shortage as an “incoherent panic ...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Friday called for strengthened technical military operation with Cyprus. Speaking upon a visit to the country of his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides, he said his ...

Work to widen and resurface the road between Rizokarpaso and the Apostolos Andreas monastery on Cyprus’ northeastern tip began on Thursday, with the road set to be widened by as ...

The government is awaiting Apple’s approval for the inclusion of its ‘e-Kalathi’ platform’s app on the company’s iOS operating system, the consumer protection service’s competition branch ...

Edek will elect a new leader on June 1, following the surprise resignation of Marinos Sizopoulos, according to reports on Friday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that the elections have already ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Thursday night reiterated his support for a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem, saying, “whatever the Greek Cypriots and the European Union say, the ...

The search for the tourist who went missing after renting an inflatable boat and taking it into the sea from the port of Latchi continued into its fourth day on ...

Evripidis Mouxouris, a 104-year-old second world war veteran, will lead the Cypriot contingent at Friday’s march to mark Anzac Day in Sydney. Mouxouris was born in Morphou in 1921 and ...

There were fires lit and dancing on the street as Morphou became the fourth town to hold a protest against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the ...

By Tom Cleaver Attorney-general George Savvides on Thursday met China’s Deputy Justice Minister Wang Yuwen. According to the Cypriot government, the pair “exchanged views on the state of laws, ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s alleged castigation of Turkish Cypriots’ “impudence” and not knowing their limits over the north’s ongoing “headscarf crisis” is proof that Cyprus’ future will ...

The appointment of a new personal envoy to Cyprus by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “imminent”, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Thursday. Speaking to journalists at the presidential ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday outlined the incentives he plans to introduce with the aim of convincing Cypriots living abroad to return to the island. Speaking ahead of the day’...