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A 75-year-old Turkish Cypriot man died aboard a boat which was evacuating people from Lebanon to Turkey on Thursday night. The man, named as Said Ezbek, originally hailed from the ...

Zisan Saltukhan, the mother of 16-year-old Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur, who was murdered in January last year, on Thursday demanded the “harshest punishment” for her daughter’s killer. Speaking ...

As the ‘parliamentary’ deadlock in the north continued into a third day with no ‘parliament speaker’ having been elected and ‘parliament’ having been effectively closed since Monday night, Turkish Cypriot ...

The director of a hotel in the Kyrenia district was released on bail on Wednesday after being arrested in connection with the death of a hotel worker who was electrocuted. ...

Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday rejected pre-trial objections put forth in the case of a German national held in connection with usurping Greek Cypriot property in the north. The woman ...

Criminal court proceedings in the case of the 49-year-old German broker accused of usurping Greek Cypriot property in the north have been postponed for a second time. The case hearing ...

A man was issued a fine of 33,926TL (€886) in Kioneli after being filmed throwing sunflower seed shells out of his car’s window. The man had been filmed while waiting ...

Police have arrested a 53-year-old woman in connection with a case of usurping Greek Cypriot property in the north. The woman was arrested at Larnaca airport on Friday, on arrival ...

The north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek has the right to cancel its 15-year procurement contract with Turkish energy company Aksa over contract breaches with regard to the planned subsea electricity ...

A man was arrested after taking a total of €2,000 on the promise that he would help illegally transport migrants from the Republic to the north. He was summoned by the ...

By Tom Cleaver The north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek paid the Republic’s electricity authority (EAC) a total of $2 million (€1.8m) for the supply of electricity during the month of ...

An exposé released on Monday revealed that migrant fruit pickers in the north are living in squalid conditions in a camp near Morphou. The report, released in newspaper Ozgur Gazete, ...

Deputy Tourism Minister Costas Koumis on Monday decried what he described as “unfair competition” from the north in the tourism sector. Questioned by Politis Radio over tour operator Tui’s ...

The Greens on Thursday called on the government to do more to prosecute those dealing in Greek Cypriot properties in the north, releasing a long list of suspects and suspected ...

A Turkish soldier died and 11 more were injured on Thursday after a military vehicle overturned near Morphou. The vehicle was travelling towards Morphou from the village of Argaki. According to ...

Those held responsible for the deaths of 35 Cypriots when the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed during last year’s earthquakes “will get the punishment they deserve”, ...

The Cyprus government and the Turkish Cypriot leadership are in a furious row over a decision by tour operator Tui to stop daytrips to the north, with leader Ersin Tatar ...

The Turkish Cypriot Famagusta municipality on Wednesday announced it had issued a total of five fines for drivers of sewage tankers which had been caught dumping raw sewage at the ...

A shipment of 12,000 tonnes of diesel is expected to arrive in the north on Wednesday to power the Teknecik power station, as repair work continues on its broken and dysfunctional ...

A Georgian woman was arrested in the north, after it was found she was wanted by Interpol, the Turkish Cypriot press have reported. The woman, Shehriban Toptal, is wanted for ...

Serdal Gunduz, the 30-per-cent shareholder and secretary-general of the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou, who stands accused of 98 charges of fraud, falsifying documents, money laundering, ...

Environmentalists have once again raised questions over the validity of analysis reports conducted by the north’s ‘health ministry’ declaring the seawater off the north’s beaches to be clean. ...

A 33-year-old Syrian mother of six was arrested in the north in the early hours of Tuesday morning, it emerged on Wednesday, after attempting to travel to the Republic of ...

The privatisation of the Kyrenia port is “in the final stage”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Wednesday. Speaking to Kibris TV, he said the ‘government’ has “...