Air traffic controllers in north announce strike
Air traffic controllers in the north on Thursday night announced their intention to go on strike for ten and a half hours on Monday.
HTKS, the union representing the workers, ...
US, UK, and others offer support for on-trial Cypriot journalist Kismir
The diplomatic missions of the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries in Cyprus offered their support to Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, whose trial for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot ...
North plans to increase vote threshold for parties to enter ‘parliament’
The north plans to increase the minimum number of votes required for a political party to be elected to ‘parliament’, transport minister Erhan Arikli said on Thursday.
Speaking to Kibris ...
‘There is no diversity of voices’ in the north’s media, ‘MP’ says
“There is no diversity of voices” in the north’s media, opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Sami Ozuslu said on Wednesday night.
He was speaking at the north’s ‘parliamentary’ finance ...
North ruling party up in arms over ‘Turkish intervention’ in local politics
By Tom Cleaver
Oguzhan Hasipoglu, the secretary-general of the largest party in the north’s three-party ruling coalition, the UBP, on Tuesday expressed his fury at Turkish intervention in local ...
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Ozturkler elected as north ‘parliament speaker’ at sixth attempt
Ziya Ozturkler was on Monday elected as the north’s ‘parliament speaker’ at the sixth attempt, bringing to an end a political crisis which lasted 42 days and saw 16 rounds of ...
Kombos to inform EU on Turkey’s moves to upgrade north at OTS
Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will brief his EU counterparts on the latest attempts of Turkey to upgrade the illegal breakaway regime at the Organization of Turkic States.
According to an ...
School students protest on UDI anniversary
School students from all over Cyprus staged protests to mark the 41st anniversary of the north’s unilateral declaration of independence on Friday.
The largest protest of the day took ...
Two remaining babies who were fed ethanol discharged from hospital
The final two babies who remained in hospital after being fed ethanol while being treated on the neonatal intensive care ward in northern Nicosia’s emergency hospital were discharged on ...
Parents in Karpasia up in arms over lack of teachers
Parents in the Karpas peninsula village of Ayios Andronikos are up in arms over a lack of teachers at the village’s primary school.
Despite the school year having now ...
Fourth baby discharged from hospital after being fed ethanol
A fourth baby was discharged from hospital on Thursday after having been fed ethanol while being treated on the neonatal intensive care ward in northern Nicosia’s emergency hospital.
A ...
Improving Cyprus-US relations ‘may push Russia to recognise north’
Improving relations between Cyprus and the United States may push Russia to recognise the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s international relations advisor Hasan Unal said on Thursday.
Speaking ...
North’s GDP hits €3.6bn
The north’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached just over €3.6 billion at the end of 2023, the north’s statistics institute reported on Tuesday.
That figure corresponds to a growth of 7.3 ...
North’s population passes 475,000, stats institute says
The north’s population was projected as exactly 476,214 by its statistics institute on Monday.
The institute said its projection was “produced in line with assumptions prepared by taking into account ...
Argument over north ‘speaker’ gets physical in ‘parliament’
The ongoing argument over whether ruling coalition party UBP ‘MP’ Ziya Ozturkler is or is not the north’s ‘parliament speaker’ became physical in ‘parliament’ on Monday, as he once ...
North union threatens action if no resignation over infant death
Turkish Cypriot trade union for nurses and midwives KTHES on Saturday threatened to take action if the ‘health minister’ and his team did not resign over the death of an ...
North tells EU to ‘stop being the Greek Cypriots’ spokesman’
The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Friday called on the European Union to “stop acting as the Greek Cypriot side’s spokesman”.
The ‘ministry’ was responding to EU High Representative ...
‘2025 will be much more difficult’ for Turkish Cypriots, ‘economy minister’ says
The year 2025 will be “much more difficult” economically than previous years for Turkish Cypriots, the north’s ‘economy minister’ Olgun Amcaoglu said on Thursday.
Speaking to the north’s public ...
Teacher assaulted by student at Trikomo school
Turkish Cypriot teachers’ trade union Ktoeos reacted with fury on Tuesday after a high school teacher was physically assaulted by a final-year pupil.
The pupil reportedly had special educational needs, ...
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Newborn baby dead, six in intensive care, after being fed ethanol
A 20-day-old baby died at the weekend and six more remained in intensive care on Monday after being fed ethanol while being treated at north Nicosia’s emergency hospital.
The ...
North appoints ‘govt’ spokesman
The north’s ‘government’ announced on Friday that it has appointed ‘finance minister’ Ozdemir Berova as its new spokesperson.
Berova’s appointment was agreed upon on Thursday evening during a ...
Report slams north for ‘trapping’ university students, who enrol
Asian and African international students are falling prey to the ‘north Cyprus trap’, encountering several abuses the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
According to FT, in recent years there has ...
Tatar: No immediate solution for Cyprus issue
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday said that no solution should be expected in the Cyprus problem in the near future.
Speaking to the media in the north, he ...
Aykut challenges jurisdiction in Greek Cypriot property case
The defence of Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut put forward three pre-trial appeals on Friday, questioning the jurisdiction of the criminal court to try the case and the conditions ...