Posts tagged with "‘north’"

New European fund to pay for development projects in north Cyprus

New European fund to pay for development projects in north

April 11th, 20192053 A renewed European aid fund to the tune of €17.7 million that will go towards economic and social development in the north was announced on Thursday, and will fund projects such as the restoration of the Pedieos river and the extension of the linear park on both sides of the buffer zone. The European Union’s aid programme will...
Casinos, offshore banking keeps north on money-laundering radar Cyprus

Casinos, offshore banking keeps north on money-laundering radar

April 5th, 20192110 Casinos and the offshore banking sector in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the north of the island remain areas of concern for money laundering activity, a US State Department report said. According to the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, anti-money laundering (AML) measures...
Thirty years for father in north who raped his teen daughter Cyprus

Thirty years for father in north who raped his teen daughter

April 5th, 20191724 A criminal court in the north on Friday imposed a 30-year prison sentence on a father who was found guilty of raping his underage daughter for two years. The 44-year-old father had raped his daughter multiple times when she was between the ages of 15 and 17. According to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), the sentence imposed was one of...
Three arrested in the north for people smuggling – reports Cyprus

Three arrested in the north for people smuggling – reports

April 4th, 20192173 Authorities in the north have arrested three men, a Turkish national and two Turkish Cypriots, suspected of smuggling Syrian refugees arriving from Turkey to the government-controlled areas through the north, reports said on Thursday. Phileleftheros, citing exclusive information, reported that the three men were arrested in the north...
Stolen 300kg church bell found in north sheep pen   Cyprus

Stolen 300kg church bell found in north sheep pen  

April 2nd, 20192817 Authorities in the north have found the church bell stolen last November from the 17th century Ayios Panteleimonas monastery complex in Myrtou and arrested three persons, reports said on Tuesday. According to Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris, police in Morphou located the stolen bell in a sheep pen in Avlona village. Three suspects were...
‘Fugitives are only extradited to other states, not the north’ Cyprus

‘Fugitives are only extradited to other states, not the north’

March 28th, 20192011 The Turkish Cypriot side has been constantly pressing, during meetings of the bicommunal Technical Committee on Crime and Criminal Affairs, a demand that alleged criminals who fled to the government-controlled areas be handed over, CNA reported on Thursday. However, sources told the news agency this would be illegal “since fugitives...
Six cemeteries across the island to be rehabilitated as a CBM Cyprus

Six cemeteries across the island to be rehabilitated as a CBM

March 27th, 20191746 The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage announced on Wednesday that it would undertake as pilot projects the rehabilitation of six cemeteries across the island, as part of confidence-building measures (CBM) between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities. In response to requests by both communities for the inclusion of...
Call for more support for bicommunal committee on cultural heritage Cyprus

Call for more support for bicommunal committee on cultural heritage

March 26th, 20191142 Parts of Kyrenia castle are in need of restoration while many other monuments are crumbling, MPs said on Tuesday while calling for more financial support for the bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage. The Greek Cypriot chair of the committee, Takis Hadjidemetriou on Tuesday briefed the House refugee committee on the work...
Who’s the real target of politician’s arrest in north? Cyprus

Who’s the real target of politician’s arrest in north?

March 17th, 20194083 By Esra Aygin Arrest seen as a stark message to the Turkish Cypriots as well as Kurds living in northern Cyprus The Turkish Cypriot community was shocked and outraged earlier this week when a senior member of the ruling Republican Turkish Party CTP, was arrested along with her daughter for “membership in a terrorist...
MPs renew call for review of state’s compensation deal with Hermes Cyprus

MPs renew call for review of state’s compensation deal with Hermes

March 14th, 20192921 Lawmakers on Thursday again called for a review of a deal whereby the state compensates Hermes – the operator of the two international airports in the south – for revenues lost to Tymbou (Ercan) airport in the north. During a closed-doors session of the House watchdog committee, MPs heard that year in year out the state...
Turkish Cypriot mother and daughter released Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot mother and daughter released

March 14th, 20192387 The daughter of the Turkish Cypriot politician arrested in the north for allegedly spreading terrorism propaganda was also arrested but both were released Thursday morning, reports said. Simge Alici, daughter of senior member of the Turkish Cypriot Republican Party (CTP), Bengul Garginsu, was arrested on Wednesday according to media...
Woman on remand in north for ‘reading books’ Cyprus

Woman on remand in north for ‘reading books’

March 12th, 20194530 A 48-year-old woman, a senior member of the Turkish Cypriot Republican Party (CTP), was arrested in the north on Monday in connection with possession of a book that is banned in Turkey, written by leader of the Kurdish Workers’ Party, the PKK. Bengul Garginsu, who is of Kurdish origin, has been remanded in custody for two days...
Price of meds hiked over 26% in north Cyprus

Price of meds hiked over 26% in north

February 21st, 20192159 An increase of 26.4 per cent in the price of medicines in Turkey has had a knock-on effect on prices in the north, Turkish Cypriot press reported on Thursday. It was announced that Turkish authorities and pharmaceutical companies agreed last week on hiking prices by 26.4 per cent to compensate suppliers for a slump in the value of the...
Substation knocked out in north, 28 villages without power Cyprus

Substation knocked out in north, 28 villages without power

February 14th, 20191440 Lightning has incapacitated a power substation in the north leaving 28 villages without electricity, reports said on Thursday. Citing a power company official, reports said the damage to the station at Lefkoniko was severe and no one could say when the problem would be repaired. Most of the affected villages were in the Famagusta...
BBC highlights plight of foreign students in north Cyprus

BBC highlights plight of foreign students in north

February 13th, 20193097 Many foreign students who attend universities in the north of the island feel let down, ending up indebted or worse, according to a damning BBC news report on Wednesday. The report quotes a student from Nigeria who said she left behind her husband and two small children after being told by an agent she could study for just $1,500...
Stolen fresco fragments welcomed home Cyprus

Stolen fresco fragments welcomed home

January 25th, 20191871 Archbishop Chrysostomos on Friday said that the Cyprus Church would spare no expense or effort to make sure stolen icons from Cypriot churches would be returned to where they belong, after receiving from Transport Minister, Vassiliki Anastasiadou, four fragments of religious frescoes removed from churches in the north following the 1974...
Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector released Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector released

January 18th, 20193059 Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Halil Karapasiaoglou, 33, was released from the prison in the north on Friday after serving three of the 20 days that were initially imposed by a military court earlier in January. An appeal was filed by Karapasiaoglou’s lawyer, Oncel Polili, against the decision taken on January 3 for his...
'Dutch tourists visit the north ignoring political pressure' Cyprus

'Dutch tourists visit the north ignoring political pressure'

January 13th, 20196423 During the past nine years, there has been a surge of tourists from the Netherlands to the north which they consider to be a safe tourist destination, reports said on Sunday. According to Turkish Cypriot media, ‘Tourism Minister’, Fikri Ataoglu, who represented the breakaway regime at the Vakantiebeurs tourism exhibition in...
Greek Cypriot fugitive remanded for seven days Crime

Greek Cypriot fugitive remanded for seven days

January 11th, 20193135 A Greek Cypriot fugitive caught in the north with a pair of Turkish Cypriots alleged associates was remanded in custody for seven days on Friday, reports said. Iosif Iosif, aka Sifis, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon in a flat in Famagusta. He was found in possession of two 9mm pistols and some 100 rounds of ammunition. It...
Teams from both sides join forces to clean up vandalised monastery Cyprus

Teams from both sides join forces to clean up vandalised monastery

January 10th, 20193961 By Emilia Christofi Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots on Thursday joined forces to protect and preserve the Monastery of St Panteleimonas in the north of the island, which was vandalised only two years after it was restored. Α community clean-up event was organised at the monastery, in Myrtou, where representatives from the...
Greek Cypriot teachers visit schools in north Cyprus

Greek Cypriot teachers visit schools in north

January 4th, 20193817 GREEK Cypriot teachers, members of the bicommunal teachers’ platform, visited schools in the north on Friday. “Together, educators can do wonders for our country,” said Maria Mourada, one of the members of the group of Greek Cypriot teachers. The general secretary of the Turkish Cypriot teachers’ union (Ktoeos), Sener Acil,...
Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector chooses jail over paying fine Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector chooses jail over paying fine

January 3rd, 20195088 A military court hearing in the north on Thursday refused to recognise Halil Karapasiaoglou, 33, as a conscientious objector and imposed a fine which the Turkish Cypriot said he was refusing to pay, choosing instead to face 20 days imprisonment. The court ordered the payment of a fine of £2,000 Turkish Lira – around €360 – and...
Authorities in the north slammed for arrest over photo caption Cyprus

Authorities in the north slammed for arrest over photo caption

December 27th, 20184054 Authorities in the north are under fire following the arrest of a Turkish Cypriot cameraman was after he posted a picture of women in Islamic dress on his social media account with a comment calling it ‘a spectacle’. Hasan Cagda, who according to media reports works for Kibris TV, was arrested and detained for four hours on...
Fuel sales fall, losses to state some €12m in first seven months (Updated) Cyprus

Fuel sales fall, losses to state some €12m in first seven months (Updated)

December 27th, 20183116 Consumption of motor fuel in 2018 fell by around 2 per cent on the previous year, owing to no small part to more and more Greek Cypriots buying their fuel in the north, the head of the petrol station owners association said on Thursday. Most purchases of fuel from the north by Greek Cypriot motorists occurred in the months of June,...
Boy dies in north after bomb explodes in his hands Cyprus

Boy dies in north after bomb explodes in his hands

December 15th, 20185926 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...
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