Tom Cleaver

Management of the Karpaz Gate Marina near the village of Ayia Triada in the Karpas peninsula has been transferred out of Israeli hands and put under the operation of Turkish ...

No investment has been made in the north’s ports “in 100 years”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Monday. Speaking to television channel Kanal T, he said ...

Turkish Cypriots’ credit card debt doubled within the space of a year between June 2023 and June this year, according to figures released by the north’s central bank on Tuesday. ...

The European Commission on Tuesday refuted Cypriot cattle breeders’ assertions that it was offering preferential treatment to Turkish Cypriot halloumi producers. The cattle breeders’ coordinating committee expressed fury on Monday ...

The University of Cyprus’ expertise “will be utilised” when Cyprus holds the European Council’s rotating presidency in 2026, European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna said on Tuesday. Speaking after a ...

Cyprus and the United States will “continue to develop” their bilateral cooperation in the field of defence, US Assistant Secretary of Defence for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander said on ...

European Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides on Tuesday announced a €2 million project aimed at “tackling” long Covid in the European Union. The European Commission said the project will focus on ...

A 27-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Monday after having allegedly been hunting birds in an area where hunting is prohibited. Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday to meet the country’s President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The pair will discuss matters including ...

Parties and deputies tabled 11 different bills at the House finance committee on Monday, all aimed at regulating the payment of multiple pensions to state officials. Of those bills, two were ...

Cyprus’ holding of the European Council’s rotating presidency “will involve all the island’s districts”, European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna said on Monday. Speaking after a meeting with ...

A Turkish Cypriot woman was arrested at Paphos airport after being found with almost 40kg of tobacco products she had brought from the north, the customs department said on Monday. ...

A 27-year-old Syrian national was sentenced on Monday to two months in prison in the north for having illegally crossed the Green Line, after the Turkish Cypriot police found he ...

A seven-metre statue of a winegrower was on Monday placed in its traditional spot in Limassol’s municipal garden ahead of the city’s 63rd Wine Festival. The festival is ...

Israeli businessman Simon Aykut, 73, will remain in custody until Wednesday when a bail hearing will take place the Nicosia Criminal Court decided on Monday. Aykut, who holds Portuguese, Israeli, and ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has “destroyed the Turkish Cypriots’ international prestige”, his predecessor Mehmet Ali Talat said on Monday. Speaking to newspaper Yeni Duzen, Talat, who served between 2005 and 2010, ...

The cattle breeders’ coordinating committee on Monday expressed fury over the European Commission’s decision to provide €39.5 million in aid for the Turkish Cypriot community as part of its latest “...

A memorial was held in the village of Acheritou on Sunday to a Turkish soldier who was shot dead in his guard post near the village in 1996. Allahverdi Kilic was ...

The government on Sunday said Turkey is using the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) to avoid its obligations to claimants who were displaced in 1974 and won cases in international courts. The ...

The Great Sea Interconnector project will go ahead “if its financial viability is ensured”, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday. Speaking at the Thessaloniki international fair, he said, “...

The government aims to “further implement measures which will strengthen young people’s access to culture”, deputy culture minister Vasiliki Kassianidou said on Sunday. Speaking at the Mountain Fest in ...

Villagers from the Limassol district on Saturday staged a protest against motorcyclists speeding along the road between the villages of Trimiklini and Ayia Eirini. The protest took place in the ...

Officers and non-commissioned officers who fought against Turkey during the 1974 invasion of Cyprus will be awarded medals by the Republic of Cyprus, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas announced on Sunday. Speaking ...

Television series Famagusta’s director Andreas Georgiou said the message the series was intended to convey was “to love each other”. In a post to his Instagram story in Greek, ...