#north cyprus

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, who served in post between 2005 and 2010, on Tuesday expressed surprise at the ongoing detention of five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the ...

There can be “no tolerance for arbitrary detentions”, European parliament president Roberta Metsola’s spokesman Juri Laas said on Monday in response to the arrest and continued remand of five ...

The five Greek Cypriots who were arrested on suspicion of espionage in the north last month in the early hours of Saturday morning learned that they will remain in custody ...

The five Greek Cypriots who were arrested on suspicion of espionage in the north last month spent more than ten hours in a military court in northern Nicosia on Friday. ...

Two of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested near the village of Galatia, near Trikomo, on suspicion of espionage, were all remanded in custody for a further three months ...

Turkish energy company Aksa reacted with fury over reports that it had financed a Turkish Cypriot leadership election poll which showed opposition candidate Tufan Erhurman to hold a 14-per-cent lead ...

The UBP, the north’s largest political party, will not send a delegation to this week’s enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem in New York, amid rumours of a ...

The north’s population is 590,000, excluding foreign students and Turkish soldiers, ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Tuesday night. Speaking to Diyalog TV, he said the ruling coalition is working ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities on Monday announced that an agreement has been struck with both Turkish Airlines and subsidiary AJet to cap air ticket prices to and from the north ...

The north’s supreme administrative court on Friday ruled to cancel the tender which had been put out for the construction of a new marina worth €300 million in the Kyrenia ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday said opposition politicians had “turned their backs on unity” in their disapproval of his behind-closed-doors address to the north’s ‘parliament’ the previous ...

A Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ who had been in Iran when Israeli missile strikes on the country began has made it safely into Turkey after travelling over land into the country. ...

The north’s ‘economy minister’ Olgun Amcaoglu on Thursday evening promised that “at least 28,000 new jobs” will be created as a result of the decision to relax laws relating to ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ voted in the early hours of Tuesday morning to relax its laws relating to the operation of casinos, following a full day of arguments over the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar formally kicked off his campaign to win re-election on Monday evening, bringing together the three political parties which have endorsed his campaign for his first ...

The trial of journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of having “insulted” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was on Thursday adjourned until October. ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli and ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu on Monday blamed each other for the overturning of a school bus in the Karpas peninsula village of ...

A second political party in the north, ruling coalition party the YDP, on Friday endorsed incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to be re-elected to the role when elections are ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers’ legal challenge to have the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs at public schools declared unlawful was adjourned until June 12 on ...

Turkish Cypriots demonstrated outside the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel’s office on Wednesday night against the ruling coalition’s alleged negligence on the matter of school transport in ...

Two journalists in the north were charged with trespassing after reporting on an incident in which teachers were locked out of a school amid souring relations between the ruling coalition ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Wednesday boarded a bus which was due to take schoolchildren to a protest outside the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel’s office and prevented ...

The north’s ruling coalition was on Tuesday lambasted by two opposition ‘MPs’ for the “reckless” and “ridiculous” policies they have followed regarding the matter of property. The debate comes ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ on Monday upheld a decision to not acquiesce to a request filed by the north’s chief public prosecutor’s office to lift the immunity of ...