#north cyprus

A university lecturer in the north has appeared in court after allegedly posing as a doctor. The lecturer, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey, who works at the Cyprus ...

A 29-year-old woman was sentenced to two years in prison in the north on Wednesday for stealing 700TL (€22.41). The woman, named Kadriye Denise Surucu, had a previous criminal record, having ...

Turkish Cypriot halloumi producers should be able to export their product to the standards of the protected designation of origin (PDO) by June, the European Commission’s Cyprus Settlement Support ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar met with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov on Monday. The meeting took place during an official visit by Tatar to Kyrgyzstan, in which he also gave ...

Many families are surviving on less than the hunger threshold of €557 a month A growing number of Turkish Cypriots live below the poverty threshold, while the income inequality between the ...

The north’s ‘state’ budget for 2024 passed through the ‘parliamentary’ finance committee stage on Friday evening with the votes of the majority of the committee’s members. The budget foresees ...

The Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in Famagusta apologised to a student after erroneously opening disciplinary proceedings for a student for “kissing his girlfriend” on Friday. The university’s rector’s ...

The UBP, the largest political party in the north, is set to hold its next party conference in September. The move was announced on Saturday by party leader and ‘prime ...

Demolition work began on Saturday at Kythrea’s health centre, after the building was deemed unsafe during earthquake proofing checks. Speaking at the commencement of demolition works, the north’s ‘...

A Greek Cypriot woman appeared in court in the north on Saturday, accused of robbing the Erulku supermarket in Neo Chorio. According to the Turkish Cypriot police, the woman entered ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia Mayor Mehmet Harmanci has reacted furiously after the north’s ‘labour ministry’ removed the Istanbul convention from northern Nicosia’s violence against women protocol. The Istanbul convention ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Wednesday after attempting to smuggle two people to the Republic. He had been arrested on Tuesday while driving between Nicosia and ...

The families of the 24 Cypriot children killed when the Isias hotel in Adiyaman, Turkey, collapsed, have demanded those held criminally responsible for the deaths be charged with intentionally killing all 24 ...

The annual budgets for the ‘prime minister’s’ office and public broadcaster BRT passed through the committee stage of the north’s ‘parliament’ on Friday evening. The pair of committee ...

Some schools in the north receive just 0.12 toilet rolls per pupil per year from the ‘education ministry’, according to Cyprus Turkish Teachers’ Union (Ktos) General Secretary Burak Mavish. Speaking to ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar met with Pakistani Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar on Wednesday. The pair met on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO)’s summit ...

The north did not receive an invite to the 10th summit of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS), despite its attempts to be admitted to the organisation as an observer ...

Prisoners in the north will be allowed to apply for parole earlier, as part of a temporary measure implemented by the ‘government’ to stem prison overcrowding. For a period of 90 ...

The first widebody jet to land in the north has been able to take off after ground staff crashed a vehicle into the door of its hold. The aeroplane, an ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia Mayor Mehmet Harmanci called on Thursday for a merger between the Nicosia Turkish Municipality (LTB) and the neighbouring municipality in Kioneli and Yerolakkos. Speaking to Kibris Postasi ...

The north declared a three-day period of “national mourning” on Thursday following a deadly bombing of the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Baptist hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. ‘Prime minister’ Unal Ustel announced ...

A Muslim religious school will be built in Famagusta, after the north’s ‘cabinet’ ratified a proposal made by its ‘education ministry’, which was published in the ‘official gazette’ on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has touted a potential name change for the north, potentially dropping the word “north” from its name altogether. The north has called itself the ‘Turkish ...

Erhan Arikli, the north’s ‘transport minister’ on Saturday repeated for a third time controversial comments wherein he branded people criticising him on social media as “mentally ill”, hitting out ...