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A major search operation continued on Friday for a 60-year-old Turkish Cypriot who disappeared while collecting mushrooms in the Cedar Valley area of the Paphos forest on Thursday. Police have ...

The Turkish Cypriot community’s largest political party the UBP on Monday announced that it had rejected every single one of the 17 appeals filed against the provisional results of the ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel was reportedly in Ankara on Monday morning, with his political party the UBP in crisis, two days after holding a primary election to choose ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek resigned his post in the early hours of Sunday morning as the community’s largest political party, the UBP’s primary election ahead of ...

The three people who were arrested on suspicion of having kidnapped and assaulted a 24-year-old Turkish Cypriot man in Limassol were released without charge pending the completion of investigations into ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested early on Tuesday in connection with the kidnapping of a 24-year-old man on Friday in Limassol and causing grievous bodily harm. The police are searching ...

A 24-year-old Turkish Cypriot man was kidnapped and attacked with a knife in Limassol, the city’s police’s deputy operations chief Lefteris Kyriacou confirmed on Monday, following widespread reports ...

By Engin Kara For 50 years, property has sat at the centre of every negotiation on Cyprus, and every time it has been deferred to a “comprehensive settlement”. In a recent ...

Former justice minister Emily Yiolitis defended on Saturday her comment that she disagrees with Cyprus using the Greek national anthem, saying critics had distorted her words and chosen to “sell ...

A bicommunal digital project has documented more than 2,000 words in both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot dialects, while using games and AI to keep the island’s linguistic heritage alive ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “illegally occupies northern Cyprus” in his address to the United Nations general assembly. “The latest country ...

The “sovereign equality and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriot people” must be recognised, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, as he addressed the United Nations general ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Monday promised that if his party the UBP is re-elected at the forthcoming legislative elections, it will resurrect Cyprus Turkish Airlines, which closed ...

A total of 5,176 Turkish Cypriots have been granted Cypriot citizenship since 2004, figures released by the interior ministry showed on Monday. A total of 2,972 citizenships, the largest share of the total, ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities on Saturday evening announced plans to build a new football stadium in Nicosia, which they say will adhere to European football governing body Uefa’s “Category 4” ...

Like an old dog barks now and again to remind himself he is a dog, an old Cypriot scribbler feels the need to write about the Cyprus problem now and ...

The Republic failed to properly investigate the disappearance of Loizos Hadjigeorgiou and his son Giorgos after the Turkish invasion of 1974 despite opportunities to examine people allegedly involved in their abduction, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman sent letters to UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Barcelona FC president Joan Laporta on Friday, to complain ...

Building trust between communities and overcoming division in Cyprus is the long-standing goal of Unficyp when facilitating religious visits, Unficyp spokesperson Siddique Aleem said as 80 Turkish Cypriots visited the Hala ...

When Antonio Guterres crossed the Green Line on July 28, on his first official visit to Cyprus as secretary-general, the question that occurred to me was not what he had come ...

Turkish Cypriot activist Selma Eylem said on Friday she had been asked by police in the north to give a statement over remarks she made to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ...

Former Disy leader Averof Neophytou has denounced calls to close the crossing points, cautioning on Wednesday that such a move could create new political problems for the Republic and hand ...

Turkey will “not abandon” the Turkish Cypriots and will “continue to defend” what it considers their rights in the Levant, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, as UN Secretary-General ...

The Court of Appeal upheld the pre-trial detention of a Turkish Cypriot man facing rape, indecent assault and sexual harassment charges, rejecting his appeal against a district court ruling ordering ...