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Conflicting statements have emerged over reports that a “citizenship-for-property” scheme is being discussed for Turkish nationals purchasing homes in the north. Turkish daily Sabah reported that a proposal under discussion ...

Motorists in the north have been given until the end of June next year to replace potentially faulty airbags manufactured by Japanese company Takata, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan ...

Authorities remain on high alert three weeks after foot-and-mouth disease was detected in Lapathos in Famagusta district, said veterinary services head, Christodoulos Pipis. Speaking to state broadcaster CyBC, Pipis said ...

The lawyer of a teenage boy who shot two people in the northern Nicosia suburb of Omorphita said on Friday that his client did not intend to kill his victims ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman reacted with bemusement on Thursday to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s speech at the opening ceremony of Cyprus’ six-month term as the ...

A 17-year-old boy who shot two people at a car dealership in northern Nicosia was on Wednesday remanded in custody for two days. The shooting occurred on Tuesday morning at ...

The UN had not, as of Friday at least, weighed on the December 30 buffer-zone incident near Mammari where a Greek Cypriot father and son were cultivating their land. This has ...

The Turkish Cypriot Journalists’ Union (Ktgb) said that three journalists were threatened by a family member of a defendant while reporting on a trial at Kyrenia district court on Friday. “...

Cyprus has introduced intensified measures to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the north, including disinfection of vehicles at crossing points into the government-controlled areas. The decision was made ...

The last two Greek Cypriots who had been held in the north since July returned home late on Tuesday, bringing to an end the case of all five previously detained. ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday said that it is expected that United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin will return to Cyprus in January, with a fresh enlarged meeting ...

A Greek national suspected of trafficking drugs has been arrested and detained by authorities in the north, media reported on Thursday. Turkish Cypriot newspaper Kibris Postasi said the man was ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel’s undersecretary Huseyin Cahitoglu faced a fresh allegation of bribery on Friday after it was alleged in court that he had demanded a bribe ...

One man has died after severe floods hit swathes of northern Cyprus on Monday night and Tuesday. The man, named as 57-year-old Ercin Fevzi, had been missing since Monday night, ...

Close allies of the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel have this week faced court and sackings from their jobs within the north’s largest ruling political party the UBP ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday lamented a “lack of results” in efforts to resolve the issue of long tailbacks and congestions at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point in ...

Turkish Cypriots entering or leaving the Republic can now present their identification documents at the same counters as all other travellers, after the Greek Cypriot side seemingly abolished the long-standing, ...

Turkish Cypriots must be included in decisions concerning the island, and their views and interests must be communicated internationally, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman said on Friday. “I have made ...

A man who was sentenced to 300 years in prison in Turkey for forgery and fraud was arrested in the north on Tuesday, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Wednesday. According to ...

The editor in-chief of the north’s Ozgur Gazete newspaper, Pinar Barut, on Monday said that she has received death threats targeting both herself and her family, allegedly as part ...

A 41-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash in the north after colliding with a car carrying three Greek Cypriots, who were later released to return home after it was ...

United Nations special representative Khassim Diagne on Friday met Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu for the first time, as his contacts continue after arriving on the island to take ...

Salih Cansec, the chief of the north’s tender commission, appeared in court on Thursday after having been arrested late on Wednesday night on suspicion of taking bribes. According to ...

Turkish Cypriots on Monday commemorated the 87th anniversary of the death of the Republic of Turkey’s founding president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Events centred on the Ataturk monument at Nicosia’...