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Akel: secret Ozersay-Anastasiades meeting was not just a social event (Updated)

Jean ChristouJune 19, 2019June 19, 2019

By Jean ChristouJune 19, 2019June 19, 201902352

Opposition Akel on Wednesday called on President Nicos Anastasiades to explain his meeting with Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Kudret Ozersay behind the back of Turkish...

Cyprus Talks

Akinci: Turkish Cypriots the main victims of the status quo

Lizzy IoannidouDecember 31, 2018

By Lizzy IoannidouDecember 31, 20180110

The Turkish Cypriots are the only community working towards a solution to the Cyprus problem, the Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said in his New...

Opinion

People prefer loose to decentralised federation

Alper Ali RizaNovember 4, 2018November 4, 2018

By Alper Ali RizaNovember 4, 2018November 4, 20180110

By Alper Ali Riza The truth is a conversation about the nature of federal government and its suitability for a small island divided by ethnic...

Cyprus Talks

Anastasiades suggests input from experts on notions of federation and confederation

Lizzy IoannidouOctober 16, 2018

By Lizzy IoannidouOctober 16, 2018057

President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday said he had suggested a workshop be held where experts could discuss various parameters relating to the Cyprus problem, such...

Cyprus Talks

Anastasiades ‘not shifting the goalposts’ he says

Elias HazouOctober 11, 2018October 11, 2018

By Elias HazouOctober 11, 2018October 11, 2018055

The government is not shifting the goalposts as to the form of a reunified Cyprus state desired by the Greek Cypriot side, president Nicos Anastasiades...

Cyprus

T/C party denounces federal solution

George PsyllidesJuly 18, 2017

By George PsyllidesJuly 18, 201754 27

Chairman of the Turkish Cypriot Democratic Party Serdar Denktash announced on Tuesday that his party was withdrawing its support for the February 11, 2014 joint...

Opinion

The Republic is dead, long live the Republic

Alper Ali RizaJanuary 8, 2017January 8, 2017

By Alper Ali RizaJanuary 8, 2017January 8, 201710 87

I do not know any of the leaders of the rejectionist parties but I do know plenty of people who are against any kind of...

Cyprus

Akel responds top Greek comrades who backtracked on Cyprus’ federal solution

Evie AndreouNovember 8, 2016November 14, 2016

By Evie AndreouNovember 8, 2016November 14, 201625 49

Akel believes the decision of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) to reject a bicommunal, bizonal federation in Cyprus is wrong, the party said in the...

Business

Arranging competences, transfers & debt, key for reunited, federal Cyprus

Stelios OrphanidesJune 8, 2016November 14, 2016

By Stelios OrphanidesJune 8, 2016November 14, 2016023

By Stelios Orphanides The choice of model for a federal Cyprus, which will set out the assignment of competences and the regime governing transfers and...

Cyprus

Uproar over Turkish Cypriot side’s ‘virgin birth’ implication

FORMER STAFFFebruary 5, 2016November 14, 2016

By FORMER STAFFFebruary 5, 2016November 14, 201653 30

A statement by the spokesman of Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, Baris Burcu, in which he said a Cyprus solution would create a new federal...

Cyprus

Anastasiades hopeful but not certain of 2016 solution

Jean ChristouJanuary 3, 2016November 15, 2016

By Jean ChristouJanuary 3, 2016November 15, 20167 29

President Nicos Anastasiades said that although important work has been done in the negotiations, he does not think it is sufficient to say with certainty...

Cyprus

Favouring a ‘Cypriot’ identity but differing on what it means

Evie AndreouFebruary 25, 2015November 14, 2016

By Evie AndreouFebruary 25, 2015November 14, 201661 123

By Evie Andreou The majority of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots favour fostering a Cypriot identify but appear to differ on what that means, according...

Cyprus

Federation to be added to school curriculum

George PsyllidesJuly 21, 2014November 16, 2016

By George PsyllidesJuly 21, 2014November 16, 201612 23

By George Psyllides POLITICAL systems, including federation, will be part of the school curriculum in the near future according to Education Minister Costas Kadis, who...

Cyprus

Greek Cypriots ‘will never accept partition’

George PsyllidesJuly 21, 2014November 14, 2016

By George PsyllidesJuly 21, 2014November 14, 201641 50

By George Psyllides CYPRUS’ future would be brighter and more hopeful if obstacles were overcome and dividing lines wiped out through a federal republic, President...