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DND Homes and its subsidiary DND Cyprus, based in Famagusta, currently advertising 622 luxury homes in the north, are being investigated for the usurpation of Greek Cypriot properties. Disy MP Nikos ...

The second day of ‘parliamentary’ deadlock in the north on Tuesday ended with no progress being made and its lame duck ‘speaker’ Zorlu Tore being taken to hospital. Tore was ...

Turkish Cypriot taxpayers are paying 10 million TL (€264,620) every month to pay for Ercan (Tymbou) airport’s electricity consumption, the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s workers’ trade union El-Sen leader ...

Some people in the north are complaining that the call to prayer is too loud, while others are complaining that it is too quiet to be heard, the north’s ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to ten years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was postponed again on Friday. Friday’s ...

Ercan (Tymbou) airport’s holding company T&T’s general manager Serhat Ozcelik on Thursday insisted that the airport had not made a 1 billion TL (€29.8 million) loss in 2023, after ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel was voted at the head of the UBP party in the north, it emerged on Sunday. The announcement on Sunday said Ustel won with 65.8 ...

The Turkish Cypriot mukhtar of the Morphou district village of Kyra Turgay Yildiz was sentenced to nine months in prison on Thursday after having been found guilty of giving a ...

A British tourist was on Thursday sentenced to two months in prison in the north after having been convicted for the possession of cannabis. The man appeared in front of ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci was on Thursday fitted with a permanent pacemaker. Northern Nicosia’s Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital’s chief physician Adil Ozyilkan explained that the operation ...

A 43-year-old man was charged with premeditated murder in court in Trikomo on Wednesday after having allegedly killed a man by dousing him in petrol and setting him and his ...

The minimum wage in the north was set at a figure higher than that of the Republic of Cyprus at a meeting of the north’s minimum wage determination commission ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday night said he is “making moves” on the matter of building new court buildings in the north. All of the court buildings in ...

The Tashkent nature park in Vouno in the north of the island on Friday issued a call for donations to fund the newly formed “Karpasia donkeys management plan”. In a ...

Two men, aged 39 and 32 years old, were arrested on Friday after being found digging a hole on the road to the St Hilarion castle in the Kyrenia district in the ...

Serdal Gunduz, the 30 per cent shareholder and secretary-general of the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou, was charged with 130 more counts of fraud, document forgery, and ...

Portacabins being used to temporarily house classrooms at Lapithos’ Yavuzlar high school have been placed on a dried-up river bed, Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ union (Ktoeos) chairwoman Selma Eylem ...

An electricity panel exploded at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport, the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s employees’ trade union El-Sen chairman Ahmet Tugcu said on Thursday. Tugcu said ...

The full file of the case against Serdal Gunduz, the 30 per cent shareholder and secretary-general of the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou, will be presented ...

Turkey’s Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Friday promised to “ensure the sustainability of the energy supply” in the north. Speaking during a visit to the north, he said Turkey ...

The European Commission on Tuesday announced the provision of just over €39.5 million of aid for the Turkish Cypriot community as part of its latest “annual action programme”. It said the ...

The north’s ‘tourism minister’ Fikri Ataoglu on Thursday implored Turkish holidaymakers to choose to travel to the north instead of to the Greek islands for their holidays. Speaking to ...

A report published on Thursday revealed that an email from the deputy tourism ministry sparked panic within the tourism company TUI. The incident drew heavy criticism from MPs, who accused ...

The Greek Cypriot man who was arrested on suspicion of having stolen two caravans in the north is out of hospital and appeared in court again on Friday. The man, ...