#Cyprus Problem

Greek opposition political party Syriza leader Stefanos Kasselakis on Friday promised “initiatives in the European parliament” with regard to the Cyprus problem. Speaking after a meeting with Cypriot president Nikos ...

Turkish opposition political party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel on Thursday evening said the north is not a “baby homeland”, but in fact a “sister country”. Ozel was speaking at late ...

Under no circumstances are there discussions for a two-state solution for Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. His statements to the German Press Agency (GPA) were published in a ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday called for negotiations for a solution to the Cyprus problem to resume. Speaking during his arrival at the European Political Community summit in ...

The north’s ‘education ministry’ on Tuesday reacted with “deep sorrow and concern” over images drawn by children depicting Turkey’s invasion of the island in 1974. The images appeared on ...

If the events of 1974 – coup and invasion – are to become a lesson, then “we must look the people of Cyprus in the eye and not hide behind repeated slogans,” President ...

There will “soon” be a “substantial effort” to resolve the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. He was speaking at a ceremony to remember soldiers who died during ...

In a career spanning five decades, journalist Michael Nicholson made his reputation covering wars from Vietnam to Rwanda, but few scoops were as bittersweet as the one he clinched on ...

Curfews, sporadic gun violence in the streets, media censorship, chaos and confusion: these were the conditions under which journalists had to operate in the immediate aftermath of the coup of ...

by Oya Kocak Barcin and Christoforos Dimitriou We, Oya and Christoforos know each other through our work. We live on opposite sides of the divide in Cyprus, have different backgrounds ...

I am with Maria Angela Holguin, personal envoy of the UN secretary-general all the way with her almost poetic open letter to the people of Cyprus about the 60+ year old “...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said that neither the Greek Cypriots nor the Turkish Cypriots “loved” the Republic of Cyprus when it was first established in 1960. Speaking to newspaper Kathimerini, ...

Reading between the lines of UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s appeal to Cypriots to get involvedover the heads of their leaders, was an admission that common ground eluded her ...

The July 1974 coup and subsequent Turkish invasion of Cyprus were tragic in themselves but what’s even more tragic is that 50 years later, the prospects for a solution are at ...

Resolving the Cyprus problem is a top national priority for Greece, the Greek Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said on Tuesday. Speaking at the ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said President Nikos Christodoulides is continuing concrete proposals that will lead to the restart of Cyprus talks, it emerged on Sunday. Ioannou was in Greece for ...

All chapters of the book – with the exception of the last one – reflect a brief review of recent Cypriot political history. In general, I agree with the comments of the ...

In his latest Unficyp report on Cyprus, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday expressed his strong concerns over the ‘significant’ militarisation of the buffer zone which undermine Unficyp’s peacekeeping ...

Hours after the head of the UN security council said no common ground for solving the Cyprus problem had been found by the UNSG’s personal envoy, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

The head of the UN Security Council on Monday said that UN Secretary-General personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin has only found there is no common ground for a Cyprus solution. ...

Cyprus has an opportunity to push ahead and establish a Truth Commission on the Missing with a visit by the Council of Europe in early July and also the presence ...

UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has released a video statement published by Theresa Villiers, confirming Conservative support for the efforts of Cypriots to negotiate a settlement to reunite the island ...

The European People’s Party has included the Cyprus problem in its list of top 10 priorities, President Nikos Christodoulides announced in Brussels on Thursday, amid a flurry of meetings linked ...

“We are aware of the challenges but we remain confident and optimistic” said Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, referring to Cyprus discussions of UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy for ...