TRNC loses millions from unpaid road tax
The inefficiency of the system for renewing road tax licenses is leading the TRNC to lose millions. Around 25,000 vehicle owners did not renew their road tax in 2015 while 102,000 others deleted their...
View ArticleNorth Cyprus represented at Dublin tourism fair
North Cyprus took part in “The Holiday World Show 2016” fair which took place in Dublin, Ireland on January 22-24. Over fifty countries were represented at the Dublin fair. According to a statement...
View ArticleDetails over water management to be agreed soon
Prime Minister Omer Kalyoncu said that work on determining how the water being pumped from Turkey is to be managed is expected to be finalised in the coming days. Commenting on the issue before...
View ArticleCommunity leaders met today
President Nicos Anastasiades and President Mustafa Akinci held a meeting today and agreed on procedures to be followed during the negotiations. The meeting was shorter than anticipated following the...
View ArticleSouth wants return of Varosha and Nicosia airport
Greek Cypriot government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides has said that the fenced-off city of Varosha and the buffer-zone should be returned to Greek Cypriot control. He added that he hoped that...
View ArticleNorth’s high energy costs do not reflect global oil prices
Representatives of the tourism and agriculture sectors in North Cyprus have described a recent announcement by the region’s energy authority to lower the cost of electricity by 33kurus/kWh, as “too...
View ArticleBarth’s office hiring economy constultant
Special envoy Espen Barth Eide’s office is hiring an economy consultant to assist on the financial aspect of a Cyprus solution. Eide became the latest appointee as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s...
View ArticleLatest travel advisory for Turkey
A recently updated travel advisory from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advises against all travel to within 10 km of the border with Syria. The FCO advise against all but essential travel...
View ArticleTurkish Cypriot journalist questions optimism over negotiations
While issues such as governance, power sharing, economy and EU affairs have been largely agreed, (except the issue of a rotating presidency), thorny issues such as territory have not. Turkish Cypriot...
View ArticleNorth Cyprus represented in Istanbul Tourism Fair
North Cyprus was represented in the Eastern Mediterranean International Tourism and Travel Exhibition in Istanbul held between the 28th and 31st of January. TRNC Minister of Tourism Faiz Sucuoglu...
View ArticleTurkish tourism hit by sanctions and security issues
Russian sanctions along with security concerns have hit Turkey’s tourism industry hard. As many as 1,318 hotels have been put up for sale along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, Turkish daily Zaman...
View ArticleNorth Cyprus imported one billion USD worth of Turkish goods
Turkey exported to North Cyprus goods worth 783 million US dollars in 2015, while the North exported to Turkey goods valued at 58 million dollars. Turkish Cypriot daily Havadis reports that Turkey...
View ArticleFM Colak concerned about territory demands by South
TNRC Foreign Minister Emine Colak, has described as “worrying” the statements made by Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides regarding the immediate return of the fenced off city of Varosha....
View ArticleUK may return some territory to Cypriots post-solution
The UK remains willing to return part of its British bases territory to the Cypriots after the island is re-united, British High Commission to Cyprus Ric Todd has said. In an interview with CyBC...
View ArticleSouth’s tripartite energy meeting should not be underestimated
TRNC Finance Minister Birikim Ozgur, has said that that the influence on the Cyprus problem of the tripartite summit held last week in Nicosia between South Cyprus, Greece and Israel is “important and...
View ArticleCyprob solution largely depends on Turkey: Anastasiades
President Nicos Anastasiades has said that many issues in the Cyprus negotiations would depend on the attitude of Turkey. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he said that it was worth...
View ArticleHope of settling water management issue with Ankara
A group of TRNC ministers are set to visit Ankara next week in order to resolve the water management issue. Finance minister, Birikim Ozgur, Minister of Agriculture, Erkut Sahali and economy minister...
View ArticleCyprus negotiations create upsurge in Kyrenia property values
Chairman of the Turkish Cypriot Real Estate Agents’ Union (KTEB) Hasan Sungur, has said that the value of properties in North Cyprus will rise in the event of a possible solution to the Cyprus problem....
View ArticleFourth deaths from swine flu in TRNC
The Health Ministry has stated that 71 cases of swine flu (H1N1 virus) were diagnosed in the North Cyprus, while the number of deaths has reached four. Undersecretary for the ministry Dr Omer Gur has...
View ArticleNew bi-communal project to protect Kyrenia shipwreck begins
A project to improve the gallery housing the ancient shipwreck in Kyrenia castle, has been launched by the bi-communal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, it was announced yesterday. The...
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