Posts tagged with "‘north’"

Boy dies in north after bomb explodes in his hands Cyprus

Boy dies in north after bomb explodes in his hands

December 15th, 2018 A small bomb that had not detonated caused a 13-year-old boy in the north to lose his life on Friday near a shooting range in the area of Kira in Morphou. Makhir Ismailov was found by his parents on Friday morning when they went looking for him as he had not been seen since the previous afternoon. He was found in a pool of blood in...
North contractors threaten yellow-vest demo over high-rise restrictions Cyprus

North contractors threaten yellow-vest demo over high-rise restrictions

December 13th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Contractors in the north have threatened to react with a yellow vest-style protest unless a decree they see as hindering development in the areas of Famagusta, Trikomo and Ayios Sergios is withdrawn. According to Turkish Cypriot media reports, the contractors’ association in the north warned authorities they would...
Body found during search for missing woman in north Cyprus

Body found during search for missing woman in north

December 9th, 2018 Turkish Cypriot police have located the body of a woman they believe could be missing Gaye Soyutok, 18, who was with three friends when their car was swept into a ravine during flash floods in the north on Monday night, reports said. CNA reported that police were identifying whether the recovered body is that of the young woman for...
Search goes on for woman whose friends died in north’s flash flood Cyprus

Search goes on for woman whose friends died in north’s flash flood

December 7th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Authorities in the north continued the search on Friday to locate an 18-year-old woman, believed to have been with three other persons, who were found dead on Thursday after their car was swept away by a torrent during flash floods in the Kyrenia area. The woman is yet to be found. The bodies of the three other...
Anastasiades offers help after flooding deaths in north (Update 2) Cyprus

Anastasiades offers help after flooding deaths in north (Update 2)

December 6th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday the Greek Cypriots were ready to provide any assistance to the north after at least four people died in flash floods. Anastasiades spoke to Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci to offer any help they needed and to express his condolences for the loss of life. Akinci responded that the...
Cyprus protests to UN over Turkey’s airspace violations Cyprus

Cyprus protests to UN over Turkey’s airspace violations

November 30th, 2018 Cyprus on Thursday officially protested to the United Nations Turkey’s continuing violations of its national airspace and territorial waters and called for them to end immediately. In a letter to the UN secretary-general which circulated on Thursday, the deputy permanent representative of Cyprus to the UN, Polly Ioannou, sent two...
First service at church in Stylli since 1974 Cyprus

First service at church in Stylli since 1974

November 29th, 2018 A liturgy is to be carried out on Sunday at the church of Profitis Elias at the village of Stylli near Famagusta in the north for the first time since 1974. The liturgy will be carried out after authorities in the north approved the request submitted by the Bishopric of Constantia-Famagusta through the UN. It will take place between...
EU announces fresh aid for Turkish Cypriots Cyprus

EU announces fresh aid for Turkish Cypriots

November 28th, 2018 The European commission on Wednesday adopted a new annual action programme for Turkish Cypriots amounting to €34.5 million. The money is aimed at facilitating reunification by encouraging the economic development of the community with the view of improving contacts between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots and the EU. According to a...
Turkish national goes after ex with a knife following Facebook block Cyprus

Turkish national goes after ex with a knife following Facebook block

November 23rd, 2018 By Lizzy Ioannidou A Turkish national was detained by a court in the north on Friday after he admitted to threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend for blocking him on Facebook. The incident occurred on Wednesday, when the suspect arrived at his ex-girlfriend’s house in the village of Yerolakkos. According to Turkish Cypriot media...
People living in the north see widespread corruption – survey Cyprus

People living in the north see widespread corruption – survey

November 21st, 2018 A vast majority, 89 per cent, of people in the north perceive that bribery and corruption exist there, while 56 per cent think the situation got worse in 2017. Some 48 per cent said that diverting public funds to companies, individuals or groups due to corruption was very common or common. When asked if there was a tradition of...
Around 60 new applications from Maronites to relocate north Cyprus

Around 60 new applications from Maronites to relocate north

November 16th, 2018 Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou received approximately 50-60 new applications from Maronites requesting to resettle in the northern villages of Kormakitis and Karpasha, he told CNA on Friday. Photiou said that the flow of applications has continued, both from single persons and families interested to benefit from the...
Turkish Cypriot authority agrees Karpas woman unfairly treated Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot authority agrees Karpas woman unfairly treated

November 13th, 2018 An enclaved woman from Rizokarpaso was backed by the Turkish Cypriot ‘ombudsperson’ over her complaint that authorities in the north had given her property in the village to others to live in despite the fact she had a title deed. According to Turkish Cypriot media, ‘ombudsperson’ Emine Dizdarli ruled that Niki Nikola...
Increase in visitors to north Cyprus

Increase in visitors to north

October 30th, 2018 The number of visitors to the north rose to around 1.4m in the first nine months of the year, a 3.5 per cent annual rise, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Tuesday. The figures concern people who travel to the north either by air directly or by ship, daily Kibris said. The majority of visitors, 77.4 per cent, are Turkish nationals...
Police arrest driver of petrol tanker with fuel from the north Cyprus

Police arrest driver of petrol tanker with fuel from the north

October 26th, 2018   Police on Friday afternoon arrested a 36-year-old man, after he was found driving a petrol tanker with thousands of litres of diesel fuel from the north, authorities said. The man crossed into the Republic from the Pergamos checkpoint in the British base area of Dhekelia, and was stopped by Cypriot authorities on the Larnaca...
Turkish Cypriot sentenced for fraud in UK detained in north Crime

Turkish Cypriot sentenced for fraud in UK detained in north

October 26th, 2018 Turkish Cypriot authorities said they have detained a man wanted by British authorities in connection with VAT fraud worth £25m. Reports said Turkish Cypriot Timur Mehmet, 44, had been arrested in Kyrenia on suspicion of possession of cocaine with two other suspects. They were subsequently released on bail. Mehmet is among the...
Court in north throws out Levent case against Erdogan Cyprus

Court in north throws out Levent case against Erdogan

October 22nd, 2018 A court in the north has thrown out a case filed by Sener Levent and Afrika newspaper against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, for instigating attacks on the newspaper’s offices on January 22, 2018. According to the Cyprus News Agency the court said there was not sufficient testimony and evidence to bring a case against Erdogan....
Woman in prize winning photo dies in the north Cyprus

Woman in prize winning photo dies in the north

October 18th, 2018 Turkish Cypriot Nevcihan Olusum – the woman whose pain of losing her husband during the 1964 events in Cyprus was captured by war photographer Don McCullin – died on Thursday at the age of 87 in Pentayia in the north. Olusum’s husband was killed in March 1964 by Greek Cypriots during the intercommunal strife. The photo of her...
British murder suspect to appear in court Tuesday Crime

British murder suspect to appear in court Tuesday

October 15th, 2018 A Briton wanted in the UK for murder who was hiding out in the north is to appear at the Nicosia district court for an extradition hearing on Tuesday after being handed over to Cypriot police at the weekend. Charles Edward Riddington, 36, is wanted for the murder of 24-year-old George Barker in 2016. He was caught in Trikomo using a...
Rising crime rates in the north Cyprus

Rising crime rates in the north

October 14th, 2018 By Esra Aygin But calls for tougher security raise concerns over greater police powers A series of recent murders, robberies and other crimes in the northern part of Cyprus is creating fear among Turkish Cypriots and prompting demands for stricter security measures. One justice official said this week that in the last year alone...
Icons stored in Kyrenia castle ‘generally in good condition’ Cyprus

Icons stored in Kyrenia castle ‘generally in good condition’

October 12th, 2018 Members of the bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage on Friday visited Kyrenia castle to look into the conditions under which Greek Orthodox icons and other religious artefacts, which they found to be in “generally good condition”. The visit came following concerns in recent weeks over how the icons were being...
Propane prices in the north jump 40% overnight Cyprus

Propane prices in the north jump 40% overnight

October 11th, 2018 The ‘government’ in the north has sought to placate public reaction to the spike in propane prices after they shot up 40 per cent overnight. Tufan Erhurman, the breakaway regime’s ‘prime minister’, took to social media saying there was nothing to be done about the price hike, which was due to market forces. Erhurman went...
Officer facing suspension after Nigerian man escapes custody at crossing Cyprus

Officer facing suspension after Nigerian man escapes custody at crossing

October 11th, 2018 A police officer is facing suspension and a probe against him in connection with the escape on Wednesday evening from the Ayios Dhometios crossing of a 26-year-old man from Nigeria who was passenger in the car of a Greek Cypriot man crossing from the north. The 26-year-old was in the back seat of the car of a 30-year-old Greek Cypriot...
Detained father and son fined and released Cyprus

Detained father and son fined and released

October 2nd, 2018 A Greek Cypriot father and son who were arrested on Saturday evening by Turkish Cypriot authorities were freed on Monday afternoon. They entered in the Strovilia area and charged with having illegally entered a military zone. According to the police, shortly before 7pm on Saturday the Dherynia station received a call from a woman...
Detained Egyptian fishermen back in Limassol Cyprus

Detained Egyptian fishermen back in Limassol

September 29th, 2018 Five Egyptian fishermen, detained last week off Cyprus’ north-western coast by Turkish forces, returned by boat to Limassol on Saturday. The fishermen were remanded in custody for three days by the Kyrenia district court but were fined and released, and set off for Limassol on Friday. Each paid a fine of €500. The five-member...
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