#kyrenia

The scheduled meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday was on Monday postponed. it will now take place next Wednesday, September 9 at 10.30am government ...

A chorus of boos rang out around the port of Kyrenia as Turkish ambassador in Nicosia Ali Murat Basceri departed for the capital on Monday afternoon, with the families of ...

Tensions were high at the new port of Kyrenia on Monday as the families of those who remain missing after a ferry capsized off Cyprus’ northern coast remained outside the ...

A total of 19 people are still being treated in hospital on Monday after a passenger ferry capsized and sank off the coast of Kyrenia, the Turkish Cypriot ‘health ministry’ said.  ...

Ayten Bicer felt her 12-year-old daughter slip from her hands and disappear as a ferry capsized off northern Cyprus on Sunday, killing at least eight people. Her daughter Miray, and 6...

Nine people appeared in court on Monday after having been arrested in connection with the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia on Sunday, with eight people ...

Operations to locate the 18 people that remain missing following the sinking of the ferry off Kyrenia continued throughout the night using aircraft, drones and helicopters, with sea searches set to ...

A deep-water search and rescue boat will arrive in Cyprus on Tuesday to aid in efforts to locate those who are still missing after a passenger ferry capsized off the ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities on Sunday night announced a three-day mourning period to be observed in light of the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia earlier ...

Larnaca’s joint rescue coordination centre (JRCC) on Sunday evening said that it was told that the Turkish Cypriot authorities “do not need the assistance” it had offered after a ...

The captain of the ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia was arrested on Sunday evening, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said, describing the incident, which has thus ...

A total of eight people are now confirmed to have died as a result of the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia, the north’s ‘transport ...

United Nations special representative Khassim Diagne on Sunday said he was “deeply saddened” by the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia, which has thus far caused ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday offered his condolences after a ferry bound for his country sank shortly after departing from the new port of Kyrenia earlier in the ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Sunday afternoon expressed “deep sadness” over the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia, which has thus far caused the deaths of ...

At least 150,000 people currently live in Kyrenia, the town’s Turkish Cypriot mayor Murat Senkul has said, stressing that the overall population of the north is likely much larger than ...

Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul on Friday warned that political pressure exerted to bring about the cancellation of the Nexus electronic music festival in his town serves only to “...

Music was meant to bring people together, not place communities on opposing sides, EXIT said on Thursday as it formally announced its withdrawal from the planned Nexus festival near Kyrenia ...

Serbian music company EXIT has withdrawn from the planned Nexus electronic music festival at Kyrenia Castle, Elam MEP Geadis Geadi said on Wednesday, following diplomatic and political pressure over the ...

Disy MEP Loukas Fourlas has called on Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to intervene and prevent a planned electronic music festival at Kyrenia Castle, saying the event would legitimise the administration ...

The 70th Engineer Battalion was ordered not to lay mines at a key landing point on the northern coast of Cyprus shortly before the Turkish invasion in 1974, according to an ...

Kyrenia mayor Akis Violaris has called on the government to intervene over the planned Nexus electronic music festival at Kyrenia Castle, saying on Friday that the participation of European artists ...

Four of the seven people arrested in connection with the murder of 40-year-old Nizam Allanazarov appeared in court in Kyrenia on Friday, facing allegations related to the murder and drug ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that the European Union’s involvement in efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem was now substantive rather than symbolic, as he reiterated that progress ...