#turkish cypriot

By Fahri Zihni It is now the 60th anniversary of the Turkish Cypriot community being subjected to social and economic embargoes. Yes, 60, not 50 years. These have been implemented through the ...

A Turkish Cypriot MP demanded the north’s law on military crimes be changed after the trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir was postponed again on Monday. Kismir stands ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Monday decried the United Nations Security Council Resolution 186 on the anniversary of its passage. The resolution, which passed through the Security Council on March 4, 1964, ...

A government move to grant 14 citizenships to Turkish Cypriots of mixed marriages was welcomed on Thursday by an NGO in battling for the citizenship rights. The NGO, the Mixed Marriage ...

Although it made front page news in the north, police said they received no information that a group of eight young Turkish Cypriots said on Monday they had been attacked ...

The European Parliament is doing all it can to encourage Turkish Cypriots to vote in the upcoming elections for MEPs, its representative in Cyprus said on Friday. “We are doing ...

Former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator for the Cyprus problem has revealed a document allegedly showing a university in the north, of which the rector was invited to meet ‘education minister’ ...

Cyprus Turkish Football Association (CTFA) Hasan Sertoglu on Tuesday denied reports that his association has applied to join the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). He said an application to join the ...

Cyprus Football Association (CFA) chairman George Koumas said on Monday he “will not accept” Turkish Cypriots’ attempts to unilaterally join the international football community. Koumas was speaking at an event ...

Without a recognised nationality all her life, one woman welcomes the government’s decision to re-evaluate citizenship “I’ve been alive for 21 years, but I actually don’t exist… Nobody ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party the CTP’s general secretary Asim Akansoy said on Friday the 14-point package of measures for the Turkish Cypriots announced by President Christodoulides “are not enough”. ...

The 14-point package of measures announced by President Nikos Christodoulides are an “admission of guilt”, Serdar Denktash said. “The Greek Cypriot side did not prepare these proposals for us; they ...

The cost of compensating every single Greek Cypriot for every single piece of land lost in 1974 may top £22.4 billion (€26.3bn), former Immovable Property Commission (IPC) chairman Ayfer Said Erkmen has ...

Turkish Cypriot CTP party leader Tufan Erhurman said on Monday it is the of children of mixed marriages to gain citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus and should not be ...

An investigation has been launched into the circumstances under which arrested Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat managed to obtain a Republic of Cyprus passport while a warrant was out for ...

Arrest of Turkish Cypriot lawyer shakes up sales of Greek Cypriot properties in north The arrest of a Turkish Cypriot lawyer in Italy over exploitation of dispossessed Greek Cypriot property ...

A solidarity event in support on Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Mustafa Hurben was set to take place on Saturday at the Ledra St crossing point in Nicosia. “By refusing to ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci on Wednesday dropped the largest hint yet that he will run for the Turkish Cypriot leadership next year. In a televised interview with the ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ and head of the north’s ‘parliamentary’ justice committee Oguzhan Hasipoglu made an extraordinary intervention to reporters on Friday regarding the trial of those held responsible for ...

Cyprus has ten days to submit the arrest warrant and other necessary documents for the extradition of Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat from Italy, where he was arrested in connection ...

Police on Wednesday confirmed reports of the arrest in Rome of a Turkish Cypriot lawyer over the illegal sales of Greek Cypriot properties in the north. Police spokesman Christos Andreou ...

Turkish Cypriot families devastated by Turkey earthquake A little after 3:17am on Monday, February 6, I woke up dazed and confused with my bed rocking back and forth. Upon reaching for ...

But in Cyprus we must learn to forgive By Fahri Zihni Many people have a conflicting diary of events. For example, the birthday of a young child may fall close ...

A total of 86 Turkish Cypriots have been successfully evacuated out of Gaza since October 8, the undersecretary of the north’s ‘foreign ministry’ Mustafa Lakadamyali told the Cyprus Mail on Tuesday. ...