Tom Cleaver

Former Turkish Cypriot leaders Mehmet Ali Talat and Mustafa Akinci on Monday congratulated Turkish Cypriot leader-elect Tufan Erhurman on his landslide victory in Sunday’s election. “Conflict, alienation, polarisation, and ...

Turkish nationalist political party MHP leader Devlet Bahceli on Sunday night declared the landslide victory of pro-reunification Turkish Cypriot leader-elect Tufan Erhurman to be “unacceptable” and called for northern Cyprus ...

Outgoing Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday night lamented “internal party problems” within the three political parties which endorsed his re-election campaign after suffering a landslide defeat to pro-reunification ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Sunday night said the election of pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman as Turkish Cypriot leader “opens a new chapter of hope and expectations for the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday night said that the result of the day’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election – which saw pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman elected in a landslide – “...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday night congratulated Turkish Cypriot leader-elect Tufan Erhurman on being elected to the role, and declared his readiness to resume negotiations towards a federal solution to ...

Pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman was on Sunday elected as Turkish Cypriot leader, unseating pro-two-state solution incumbent Ersin Tatar and winning a record number of votes in an unprecedented landslide victory. ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar was on Sunday reported to the police by the north’s supreme election council after allegedly breaking electoral law during a television appearance on Saturday ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said he hopes the result of Sunday’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election will “be beneficial for the Turkish Cypriot people and for the entire island”. “...

Tufan Erhurman has been elected Turkish Cypriot leader in a landslide victory on Sunday. The pro-reunification candidate won a record number of votes as he swept aside his soon-to-be predecessor, ...

Sunday will see Turkish Cypriots head to the polls to elect a leader for the 14th time overall, and for the ninth time since northern Cyprus’ unilateral declaration of independence ...

The labour ministry on Friday said that “intensive efforts” are continuing to attempt to resolve the ongoing dispute between workers and employers over the matter of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA). “...

Trade union leaders were less than pleased following meetings with Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou, with Pasydy secretary-general Stratis Mattheou saying afterwards that employers wish to “...

Talks continue and will continue with the aim of bringing employers and workers to an agreement over the matter of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), employers’ groups said on Friday after ...

Former foreign minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis on Friday threw her support behind pro-reunification Turkish Cypriot leadership candidate Tufan Erhurman ahead of Sunday’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election. “Good luck, Tufan Erhurman! ...

“Several points of convergence” were found during the latest meeting to be held on the matter of the Great Sea Interconnector on Friday, according to reports. Friday’s meeting took ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged the media in both Greece and Cyprus to “not go overboard” with its reporting on differences of opinion between the two countries over the ...

Scientific and technical chamber (Etek) chairman Constantinos Constanti on Thursday said an Audit Office report which found that over 40 per cent of money spent on public works had gone to ...

Cypriot member of the European parliament Fidias Panayiotou on Thursday said he had created a political party, which he has called ‘Direct Democracy’. “This is the biggest announcement of my ...

A man arrested at Nice airport on Monday owns a large construction firm in northern Cyprus, with his arrest having been confirmed to the Cyprus Mail by diplomatic sources on ...

The energy ministers of Cyprus and Greece reiterated on Thursday their commitment to work together to bring to fruition the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), in a move de-escalating the apparent ...

Forestry department head Savvas Iezekiel on Thursday warned of possible “adverse and irreversible effects” of the government’s decision to transfer control of forest firefighting duties to the interior ministry. ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Wednesday said he had informed top European officials of the government’s “clear disagreement” with the idea of Turkey joining the EU’s Security Action ...

Nil Pinar Gokmen, the woman who appeared on a webcam video with former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Ersan Saner in which he performed sexual acts on himself, was on Wednesday ...