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Amidst parents’ concerns over school infrastructure in the north, students of a specific high school decided to abstain until a seismic resistance report is prepared, TC media reported on Friday. ...

By Gina Agapiou and Nikolaos Prakas Left-wing Akel said on Friday it stands by the families of the victims of the deadly earthquakes in Turkey, general-secretary Stefanos Stefanou said during ...

Republican Turkish Party (CTP) leader Tufan Erhurman said the election of Nikos Christodoulides as president gives new hope for the resumption of the Cyprus talks. In a letter sent to ...

The ‘government’ in the north on Tuesday officially repealed a decree to tax people’s salaries to provide earthquake relief to Turkey. According Yeni Duzen, the official decision of the ‘...

Turkish Cypriots left reeling after Turkey earthquake deaths The Turkish Cypriot community, and especially Famagustians, are mourning the deaths of 24 of their brightest and most accomplished children along with 11 parents ...

The owner and three managers of the Isias Hotel whose collapse following two earthquakes in Adiyaman killed dozens of people, including 35 members of the Turkish Cypriot volleyball team, have been ...

Rescuers from the north on Tuesday described the macabre scenes they witnessed in Adiyaman, while trying to save the Turkish Cypriot volleyball team buried under the rubble of the Isias ...

A Turkish Cypriot mother and earthquake survivor, who lost her 11-year-old daughter in the wreckage of the Isias hotel in Turkey, described on Monday the tragedy that befell the school ...

Three Turkish Cypriots, two men and one woman, were arrested in Greece while attempting to cross the Greek-Turkish border with weapons, it emerged on Monday. According to a statement released ...

All the Turkish Cypriots who died in the devastating earthquakes in Turkey on Monday have now been returned to the island as the last of the funerals were held on ...

The owners of a luxury 14-storey apartment complex which collapsed during the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake have been arrested after attempting to flee to the north. Hasan Albargun and his son ...

The bodies of 35 members of the youth volleyball team from Famagusta have now been found in a hotel devastated by Monday’s earthquake in Adiyaman, Turkey, Turkish Cypriot authorities said ...

A total of 22 bodies of Turkish Cypriots were found in the rubble of a hotel in Adiyaman, authorities in the north said on Friday as the bodies of ten victims ...

Children remain trapped in collapsed hotel A total of seven Turkish Cypriots were reported dead on Tuesday from the large-scale earthquakes that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria the day ...

A Turkish Cypriot PE teacher claimed he was refused entry into Turkey, which deemed him a “non admissible person” newspapers in the north reported on Monday. A document posted by 46...

Human rights organisations and NGOs in the north on Friday are set to hold a demonstration outside a court in Trikomo, where a 21-year-old suspected of murdering 16-year-old girl Zehie ...

Turkish Cypriots civil engineers and architects will be going on strike outside the ‘parliament’ on Tuesday, following a proposal from ‘MPs’ to abolish the necessary approvals from the professionals on ...

With our vote we must send the right message to the Turkish Cypriots Çırak is a Turkish word and literally means an apprentice craftsman, a craftsman’s assistant. But, in ...

The 21-year-old man suspected of murdering a 16-year-old girl in the north surrendered himself to the Greek Cypriot police late on Wednesday. After the crime, Sefer Bugra Altundag fled to ...

A 17-year-old Turkish Cypriot boy, who was hit by a bus in the north a few days ago, is in a critical but stable condition, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said ...

From the new mufti to illegal cults, the north is being swamped by Islamisation A series of revelations since the beginning of this year have shaken the secular and modern ...

Cyprus must adhere to EU law and stop violating the human rights of thousands of Turkish Cypriots seeking the republic’s citizenship, Akel MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek said in a statement ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition parties, non-governmental organisations, and unions took to the streets on Monday to protest the Islamification of the north, after religious authorities pushed Islamic rhetoric at mosque courses ...

The Turkish Cypriot villages in Paphos abandoned to hunters, hikers and hogs Perched atop his tractor as if it were a steed, the only regular of this remote and forgotten ...