#cyprus problem

Turkey “has problems with all its neighbours”, Cyprus’ President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Speaking to French newspaper Le Figaro, he referenced former Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s foreign ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s refusal to attend a UN meeting would show contempt towards the international body and the Turkish Cypriot people, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar denied on Sunday receiving an invite to meet with the UN and said he would not accept even if there was. Tatar said that that ...

The government hopes that Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will accept a UN proposal to hold a tripartite meeting on August 13, spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis. President Nikos Christodoulides already accepted the ...

Answers can be found to the differences between the two sides at the negotiating table to the benefit of not only Greek and Turkish Cypriots, President Nikos Christodoulides said on ...

Developments in the direction of resuming stalled talks on the Cyprus problem may be announced soon, with President Nikos Christodoulides hoping this will happen in August. The president told a ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin “knows nothing about the Cyprus problem”, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said on Friday. Speaking to Ada TV, he said Holguin “is ...

Overseas Cypriots (POMAK and PSEKA) will hold their 30th central council meetings next week in Cyprus, an announcement said. There will also be a 12th World Youth Congress of the ...

Pakistan is showing “very close interest and concern” in the north, the north’s ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu Tore said on Friday. He was speaking regarding potential future recognition of the ...

Athens blundered on the Cyprus issue after it emerged on Wednesday that the Greek government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis had mistakenly referred to expectations that a plan for solution to the ...

“As long as the Cyprus problem remains unresolved, Hellenism cannot feel at peace,” Greece’s president Katerina Sakellaropoullou said on Tuesday in an interview with her country’s national broadcaster ...

There is a window of opportunity for the Cyprus problem to move towards a solution, especially now that it is receiving international attention, Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Monday. ...

The Turkish parliament on Thursday night passed a resolution supporting a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem. The resolution, introduced by Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus, stated that “the only and ...

Greek opposition political party Syriza leader Stefanos Kasselakis on Friday promised “initiatives in the European parliament” with regard to the Cyprus problem. Speaking after a meeting with Cypriot president Nikos ...

Turkish opposition political party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel on Thursday evening said the north is not a “baby homeland”, but in fact a “sister country”. Ozel was speaking at late ...

Under no circumstances are there discussions for a two-state solution for Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. His statements to the German Press Agency (GPA) were published in a ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday called for negotiations for a solution to the Cyprus problem to resume. Speaking during his arrival at the European Political Community summit in ...

The north’s ‘education ministry’ on Tuesday reacted with “deep sorrow and concern” over images drawn by children depicting Turkey’s invasion of the island in 1974. The images appeared on ...

If the events of 1974 – coup and invasion – are to become a lesson, then “we must look the people of Cyprus in the eye and not hide behind repeated slogans,” President ...

There will “soon” be a “substantial effort” to resolve the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. He was speaking at a ceremony to remember soldiers who died during ...

In a career spanning five decades, journalist Michael Nicholson made his reputation covering wars from Vietnam to Rwanda, but few scoops were as bittersweet as the one he clinched on ...

Curfews, sporadic gun violence in the streets, media censorship, chaos and confusion: these were the conditions under which journalists had to operate in the immediate aftermath of the coup of ...

by Oya Kocak Barcin and Christoforos Dimitriou We, Oya and Christoforos know each other through our work. We live on opposite sides of the divide in Cyprus, have different backgrounds ...

I am with Maria Angela Holguin, personal envoy of the UN secretary-general all the way with her almost poetic open letter to the people of Cyprus about the 60+ year old “...