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Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar’s daughter Canev Tatar insisted on Thursday that the diploma she obtained from the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) is real. Tatar ...

Meray Durust, who was arrested as part of investigations into the north’s “fake diploma scandal”, has begun work in a new public sector role. Durust was arrested alongside her ...

The Republic of Turkey received a €9,000 fine on Tuesday from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for the imprisonment of a Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector. The ECtHR ruled that ...

A private investigator appeared in court on Monday, charged with “stalking” the person he was investigating. In court in northern Nicosia, police officer Yilmaz Sevdali said the investigator had received 90,000...

Attention turned to a sitting ‘MP’ on Monday as the scandal engulfing the north’s education sector regarding “fake diplomas” rumbled on. The ‘MP’ in question is ruling coalition party ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar filed a case with the ‘supreme court’ in the north to have the head of higher education committee (Yodak) Turgay Avci fired, it emerged on ...

Four people were arrested on Friday as part of the north’s ongoing investigation into a college which is believed to be linked to a large criminal network. The four ...

Russian citizens living in the north are able to vote in the country’s Presidential elections, according to Kibris Postasi. A ballot box has been opened in the building in ...

The north’s transport minister Erhan Arikli branded a Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ racist on Wednesday. In a Facebook post, Arikli took umbrage at opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Ceyhun Birinci having ...

The son of a man whose body was found washed up on the north’s coast last month said on Tuesday the north’s authorities “did not even call” him ...

The north’s ‘government’ on Monday night ordered a 60-day suspension of strike activity at Ercan (Tymbou) airport after air traffic control staff had walked out earlier in the evening. ...

Over 70 per cent of people in the north are overweight or obese, the north’s ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek said on Monday. Speaking on the occasion of World Obesity Day, ...

Two of the suspects accused of being a part of a mass brawl which took place on Zahra street in Nicosia’s old town in the north “were handing out ...

Opposition party says not given adequate information before a vote on airport’s contested future The protocol between the north Cyprus and Turkey regarding the handing over of Lefkoniko airport ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party TDP Leader Zeki Celer said on Sunday he would “close all these university-looking places” in the north if he came to power. He was speaking to ...

The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) “is continuing to injustice the Turkish Cypriot people,” Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Saturday. Speaking to the Anadolu Agency ahead ...

The price of a loaf of bread in the north has been put back up to its historical high of 15TL (€0.44), the north’s Bakers’ association chairman Omer Cirali said ...

All 19 people accused of taking part in a mass brawl on northern Nicosia’s popular Zahra Street last week were released on bail on Wednesday. In court, police officer Emin ...

The dentistry faculty at Morphou’s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) had its licence to teach temporarily revoked on Wednesday. The north’s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak) ...

A total of 140 kilograms of beef smuggled from the Republic were seized by police in the north on Thursday, with two arrests made. The first arrestee, a 55-year-old man, was ...

The diploma obtained by Turgay Avci, chairman of the north’s higher education standards authority (Yodak), is authentic, his university said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, a spokesperson ...

Orange farmers staged a protest at the roundabout next to the Morphou bus station on Tuesday over a raft of problems hitting the north’s citrus industry. Protestors poured hundreds ...

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday that “the president of the TRNC will attend” an upcoming summit of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) in his country. Aliyev was ...

A carer who allegedly beat a 100-year-old man who resided at the care home at which she worked in Famagusta was released on bail on Monday. In court in Famagusta, ...