#checkpoints

Öntaç Düzgün was seriously contemplating closing down his small knitting and wool shop in the heart of the walled city in north Nicosia, when the crossing points opened ...

There may not yet be an overall solution yet but a whole new generation has experienced what their parents did not Twenty years after the opening of the first crossing ...

Ampules of Botox were one of the more bizarre items an individual attempted to smuggle through the crossing points last year, SBA Customs officials in Dhekelia aid on Thursday. The ...

Authorities in the north arrested two people as part of a large anti-drug operation on Tuesday. Quoting Turkish Cypriot media, the Cyprus News Agency reported that authorities arrested a 52-year-old ...

The interior ministry on Monday said that it has taken them two years to get the approval for hiring hourly workers at the checkpoints, condemning an article over the weekend ...

The leadership in the north appears to be having second thoughts about opening more crossing points, it appeared on Wednesday, with the possibility of increasing movement through the Ledra Palace ...

Cyprus’ crossing points are not borders, but a temporary arrangement, Greek Cypriot negotiator Menelaos Menelaou said on Monday, following reports regarding efforts to introduce customs checks. Turkish Cypriot authorities have ...

More than two million visits by foreign nationals and more than one million by Greek Cypriots were made to the north in the first five months of this year, Turkish ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel has said he wants more checkpoints opened, improvements to reduce long queues at the current ones but also for those crossing to get a ...

There are no changes at the check points concerning crossings for Greek and Turkish Cypriots, said the Head of the bi-communal Technical Committee for Health, Leonidas Phylaktou. Asked by CNA ...

The interior ministry has confirmed to the Sunday Mail that there is a new policy of increased and more detailed checks on Greek Cypriots at crossing points with the north. ...

Greek Cypriot Kyriacos Tziambazis and Turkish Cypriot Untac Duzgun had not seen each other for over 460 days and wasted no time in meeting up once the crossings reopened on Friday. “...

We know how the northern part of Nicosia has been affected by the closure of the Ledra Street checkpoint, but the southern part too has seen a significant reduction of ...

Details on what checks and tests will be carried out for people crossing checkpoints around the island have been agreed and now it is a matter of political decisions, Health ...

Government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said on Monday that an agreement has been reached in principle over the reopening of crossing points, which could open on Friday. However, he added that ...

The north has said that it is ready to reopen the checkpoints from next week, well over a year after the pandemic led to their closure. According Turkish Cypriot leader ...

Efforts are underway for a meeting of the bicommunal technical committee on health to discuss the crossings, Greek Cypriot co-chair of the committee Leonidas Phylactou said on Tuesday. Phylactou told ...

The announcement that the bicommunal committee on health had been instructed to create a roadmap to reopen the crossing points was welcome news on Tuesday but people on both sides ...

Former ‘foreign minister’ in the north and chairman of the People’s Party Kudret Ozersay on Monday called for the checkpoints to open for 12 hours a day to people with ...

Dozens of Turkish Cypriots who work in the south and live in the north staged a protest near the Ayios Dhometios checkpoint on Monday afternoon asking that they be allowed ...