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Ozersay says Turkish energy firm will continue explorations in the region Cyprus

Ozersay says Turkish energy firm will continue explorations in the region

April 19th, 20191913 Turkish Cypriot ‘Foreign Minister’ Kudret Ozersay has said Greek Cypriots could be “partners” in hydrocarbons explorations by Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean. According to Turkish Cypriot media, Ozersay met on Thursday in Ankara the general director of Turkish Petroleum (TPAO), Melih Bilgin. According to a statement...
Menendez: new era in US-Cyprus relations (Updated) Cyprus

Menendez: new era in US-Cyprus relations (Updated)

April 16th, 20192444 US Senator Robert Menendez on Tuesday spoke of a new era in Cyprus-US relations after a meeting at the presidential palace in Nicosia with President Nicos Anastasiades, a week after announcing that a bipartisan bill seeking to lift the US arms embargo on Cyprus, which has been in place since 1987, had been tabled in Washington. After...
Pitfalls of the velvet divorce Opinion

Pitfalls of the velvet divorce

April 14th, 20191859 By Christos P. Panayiotides THOSE who talk about “the velvet divorce” as being the second-best solution to the Cyprus problem apparently have never gone through the process of a divorce.  Those who have will assure you that it is a particularly painful process.  They will also tell you that the words “divorce” and...
Parties welcome Congress move to lift US arms embargo on Cyprus Cyprus

Parties welcome Congress move to lift US arms embargo on Cyprus

April 10th, 20194683 Political parties on Wednesday welcomed the submission of a bipartisan bill to the US Congress that could see Washington’s decades-old arms embargo on Cyprus finally lifted. While the more hardline parties, Diko and Solidarity, issued statements calling the move “extremely important”, ruling Disy leader Averof Neophytou...
Bipartisan bill to lift US arms embargo on Cyprus introduced in Senate Cyprus

Bipartisan bill to lift US arms embargo on Cyprus introduced in Senate

April 10th, 20193898 A bipartisan bill seeking to lift the US arms embargo on Cyprus, which has been in place since 1987, was introduced by Democrat Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. In an announcement, the two Senators say that “The Eastern...
Cyprus among countries respecting ECHR payment deadlines Cyprus

Cyprus among countries respecting ECHR payment deadlines

April 8th, 20191389 Cyprus is among the Council of Europe member states that respects payment deadlines vis-à-vis damages awarded by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), contrary to Russia, Ukraine and Turkey which top the 2018 list of those who missed the deadlines. According to data contained in the 12th Annual Report of the Committee of...
Casinos, offshore banking keeps north on money-laundering radar Cyprus

Casinos, offshore banking keeps north on money-laundering radar

April 5th, 20192110 Casinos and the offshore banking sector in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the north of the island remain areas of concern for money laundering activity, a US State Department report said. According to the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, anti-money laundering (AML) measures...
Three arrested in the north for people smuggling – reports Cyprus

Three arrested in the north for people smuggling – reports

April 4th, 20192173 Authorities in the north have arrested three men, a Turkish national and two Turkish Cypriots, suspected of smuggling Syrian refugees arriving from Turkey to the government-controlled areas through the north, reports said on Thursday. Phileleftheros, citing exclusive information, reported that the three men were arrested in the north...
Kurds in Cyprus to mobilise for release of arrested compatriot Cyprus

Kurds in Cyprus to mobilise for release of arrested compatriot

March 28th, 20192344 The Kurdish community in Cyprus are planning a protest next week outside the Larnaca district court and have launched a petition calling for the release of 60-year-old Cerkez Korkmaz, a Kurd with Turkish citizenship arrested last week in Cyprus, who is facing prosecution in Germany on terrorism charges. Korkmaz, who has been living in...
No country is excluded from regional cooperation, Christodoulides says Cyprus

No country is excluded from regional cooperation, Christodoulides says

March 26th, 20191266 The establishment of a regional organisation for security and cooperation in the Middle East is the further step that needs to be taken in the Eastern Mediterranean, Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides has said. The minister was speaking during a panel discussion at the AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee) Policy...
Trilaterals: mere talking shops or grand design? Cyprus

Trilaterals: mere talking shops or grand design?

March 24th, 20192102 WHILE the sixth trilateral summit of Cyprus, Greece and Israel unfolded amid much pomp in Jerusalem this week, commentators here delivered all the hackneyed talking points: enhancement and upgrading of Cyprus’ strategic role, alignment with the United States, a meeting of historic significance. Local media crowed about the...
Tripartite cooperation not a shield from Turkish provocations, Kyprianou says Cyprus

Tripartite cooperation not a shield from Turkish provocations, Kyprianou says

March 23rd, 20192470 RECENT Turkish provocations shatter the myth the government is attempting to cultivate that its tripartite co-operations shield Cyprus against all foreign threats, the general-secretary of mail opposition party Akel, Andros Kyprianou, said on Saturday. Speaking on the sidelines of the antiracist demonstration organised in view of the...
Relatives of Missing call for substantive action Cyprus

Relatives of Missing call for substantive action

March 22nd, 20191859 The third member of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) and the UN need to do more to fulfil its mission, head of the organisation of relatives of undeclared prisoners and missing persons Nicos Sergides has said. He was referring to Paul-Henri Arni, the internationally appointed member selected by the International Committee of the...
Trilateral summits ‘not designed to isolate Turkey’, Cyprus says Cyprus

Trilateral summits ‘not designed to isolate Turkey’, Cyprus says

March 21st, 20192098 The matrix of trilateral summits among Mediterranean nations is not directed against Turkey, rather, Ankara with its own actions has made it impossible for itself to be included, foreign minister Nicos Christodoulides said on Thursday. He was speaking to the state broadcaster, providing his assessment of the latest trilateral summit...
Cavusoglu: guarantees needed now ‘more than ever’   Cyprus Talks

Cavusoglu: guarantees needed now ‘more than ever’  

March 21st, 20193339 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday said that not only were guarantees not anachronistic but ever since unilateral drilling started by the Greek Cypriots, they were more necessary than ever. He was speaking after a meeting with his Greek counterpart, Giorgos Katrougalos in Antalya where they discussed the Cyprus...
Turkey has energy role in East Med says Greek FM (Updated) Cyprus

Turkey has energy role in East Med says Greek FM (Updated)

March 20th, 20192986 Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos has said that Turkey cannot be excluded from energy-related issues in the Eastern Mediterranean area the Anadolu News said on Wednesday. “How can one exclude Turkey from an area in which it has a coastal line of many kilometres?” Katrougalos asked in the interview he gave ahead of his...
Magnitude 5.6 quake hits western Turkey, no casualties (Update 1) Turkey

Magnitude 5.6 quake hits western Turkey, no casualties (Update 1)

March 20th, 20191062 A moderate 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Turkey's western province of Denizli on Wednesday, damaging some buildings and knocking bricks and tiles to the ground in the rural area, according to witnesses, officials and the Turkish quake monitor. There were no immediate reports of casualties, according to mayors and administrators...
Anastasiades to try and secure US support for Cyprus' rights within its EEZ Cyprus

Anastasiades to try and secure US support for Cyprus' rights within its EEZ

March 17th, 20193563 President Nicos Anastasiades will try to secure US support for the rights of the Republic of Cyprus in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), similar to that expressed by the EU, during a tête-à-tête he is expected to have in Jerusalem next week with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Speaking to CNA, Government Spokesman Prodromos...
CoE urges Turkey to assist CMP Cyprus

CoE urges Turkey to assist CMP

March 14th, 20192483 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has urged Turkish authorities to assist the Committing on Missing Persons (CMP) in any way it can. During a meeting in Strasbourg this week, the body issued a decision in which it “deeply deplored the decision of Turkey not to participate in the discussions and urged the Turkish...
Turkey accused of starving north of funds Cyprus

Turkey accused of starving north of funds

March 3rd, 201910306 By Esra Aygin The Turkish Cypriot administration, financially dependent on Turkey, has not received any funding from Ankara for more than a year and is increasingly reliant on bank borrowing. The unprecedented stoppage is being viewed as blackmail from Ankara to put political pressure on the ruling coalition. The four-party...
Schinas: solution to Cyprus problem should be a European one Cyprus

Schinas: solution to Cyprus problem should be a European one

March 1st, 20191926 The solution to the Cyprus problem should be a European one, Margaritis Schinas, the Chief Spokesperson of the European Commission said on Friday. Schinas was speaking during an open discussion organised by the Representation of the European Commission in Cyprus and the Press and Information Office. The event was in the framework of...
Turkey launches ‘largest navy drill in its history’ Cyprus

Turkey launches ‘largest navy drill in its history’

February 27th, 20195355 Turkey on Wednesday launched what has been described as its largest navy drill in its history by its official news agency Anadolou, which some Greek Cypriot parties have linked to expansionist policies in the region. According to Anadolou, over 100 vessels are taking part in the exercise dubbed ‘Blue Homeland’ which is due to last...
UN officially records Turkish violations in Strovilia Cyprus

UN officially records Turkish violations in Strovilia

February 23rd, 20196102 The UN has officially recognised the recent disputed actions on behalf of the Turkish military in the Strovilia area as new violations of the military status quo in the region and has made demarches, the Cyprus foreign ministry said on Saturday. In its announcement, the ministry said that the government was closely monitoring the...
Cyprus will not consent to any upgrading of Turkey-EU customs agreement Cyprus

Cyprus will not consent to any upgrading of Turkey-EU customs agreement

February 23rd, 20195255 CYPRUS will not give its consent for an upgrade of the EU–Turkey Customs agreement unless Ankara fully implements the existing agreement in general and also with regard to the Republic of Cyprus, foreign ministry spokesman Demetris Samuel said on Friday. The European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee this week adopted the amended...
SBA steps into Strovilia fuss Cyprus

SBA steps into Strovilia fuss

February 22nd, 20194924 The British High Commission said Friday it has erected a barrier to prevent smuggling in a disputed zone in the Famagusta district, as reports suggested the Turkish military had encroached further in the area neighbouring the boundaries of British military territory (SBA). In a tweet on Friday afternoon, the BHC said a barrier had...
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