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Substation knocked out in north, 28 villages without power

Substation knocked out in north, 28 villages without power

February 14th, 20191210 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

BBC highlights plight of foreign students in north

February 13th, 20192404 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

Stolen fresco fragments welcomed home

January 25th, 20191690 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

Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector released

January 18th, 20192787 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'

'Dutch tourists visit the north ignoring political pressure'

January 13th, 20196141 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

Greek Cypriot fugitive remanded for seven days

January 11th, 20192939 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

Teams from both sides join forces to clean up vandalised monastery

January 10th, 20193736 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

Greek Cypriot teachers visit schools in north

January 4th, 20193590 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

Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector chooses jail over paying fine

January 3rd, 20194711 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

Authorities in the north slammed for arrest over photo caption

December 27th, 20183876 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)

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

December 27th, 20182936 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

Boy dies in north after bomb explodes in his hands

December 15th, 20185730 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

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

December 13th, 20182577 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

Body found during search for missing woman in north

December 9th, 20182119 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

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

December 7th, 20183681 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)

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

December 6th, 201820509 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 protests to UN over Turkey’s airspace violations

November 30th, 20183454 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

First service at church in Stylli since 1974

November 29th, 20181242 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

EU announces fresh aid for Turkish Cypriots

November 28th, 20183223 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

Turkish national goes after ex with a knife following Facebook block

November 23rd, 20182303 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

People living in the north see widespread corruption – survey

November 21st, 20182952 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

Around 60 new applications from Maronites to relocate north

November 16th, 20184090 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

Turkish Cypriot authority agrees Karpas woman unfairly treated

November 13th, 20183945 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

Increase in visitors to north

October 30th, 20184038 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

Police arrest driver of petrol tanker with fuel from the north

October 26th, 20183654 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...

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