Heavy military displays on 20th July abolished
Following the attempted military coup in Turkey on Friday, celebrations to mark Peace and Freedom Day on 20th July, will be simplified, it has been decided. According to Yeni Duzen, several receptions...
View ArticleAkinci leads ceremony to mark Peace and Freedom Day
A memorial ceremony was held in front of the Atatürk Monument in Nicosia to mark the 20th July Peace and Freedom Day. It began with a wreath laying, a period of silence after which the National Anthem...
View ArticleTurkey blocks Wikileaks website
Turkey has blocked access to the Wikileaks website shortly after it posted the contents of hundreds of thousands of private emails sent by members of Turkey’s ruling AK party. Downplaying the...
View ArticleNorth Nicosia mayor announces water tariff
Mayor of North Nicosia Mehmet Harmanci, announced the price of supplying water from Turkey to the local municipality. The prices were set by the council on Tuesday evening. He posted the following...
View ArticleInvestigation begins to find possible links in TRNC to exiled cleric Gülen
Turkish Cypriot police are sifting through the remains of burned books, computer hard disks and a USB stick, said to be about the exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen. Reportedly someone had attempted...
View ArticleTurkey introduces travel ban for academics
Turkey’s higher education council has banned Turkish academics from leaving the country and those who are abroad have been urged to return home at once, Turkey’s state media and an official who asked...
View ArticleTurkey declares state of emergency
Turkey has declared a state of emergency. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced late on Wednesday, a nationwide three-month state of emergency after the failed coup attempt on July 15. “The purpose...
View ArticlePlans afoot to reopen Gemikonağı port
Minister of Public Works and Communications Kemal Durust, paid a visit to the Lefke region, on Tuesday. He said, inter alia, that his department is determined to take steps to reopen Gemikonağı port....
View ArticleReunited Cyprus must be federal: Akinci
President Mustafa Akinci said that a possible solution, which could be accepted by both communities, is a new bi-zonal, bi-communal federal state based on political equality. Speaking to foreign...
View ArticleTurkey’s repsonse to failed coup takes effect in TRNC
The effect of the military coup attempt in Turkey has started to become evident in the TRNC. According to Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika, the wide-ranging purge operations launched in Turkey, which the...
View ArticlePresidents meet this morning for negotiations
Presidents Mustafa Akinci and Nicos Anastasiades met on this morning for the first time since last Friday’s failed coup attempt in Turkey. A wide-ranging purge of military, police, politicians, and...
View ArticleAnastasiades hopes to seal energy deal with Israel
Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades will fly to Israel, where he will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamim Netanyahu. The topics of discussion will be bilateral relations (security, energy,...
View ArticleGülen organisation FETO added to list of terrorists: Ozgurgun
Prime Minister Huseyin Ozgurgun has announced that after a three hour meeting of the Council of Ministers, terrorist organisation (FETO)/Parallel State Structure (PDY) was included in the list of...
View ArticleOperations to purge Gülen supporters in TRNC begins
Supporters of the Fethullah Gülen Organisation (FETO) in the TRNC are under pressure after the coup attempt in Turkey because operations against FETO have started in the North as well, Turkish Cypriot...
View ArticleDenktaş not convinced of any links between TRNC and attempted coup
Deputy Prime Minister Serdar Denktaş, has said that no one can convince him that there are any links between the attempted military coup in Turkey and the TRNC. He recalled the Ergenekon case, when...
View ArticleÖzgürgün in Ankara today
Prime Minister Hüseyin Özgürgün is visiting Ankara today by official invitation of Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım (pictured left). Özgürgün and his delegation will hold high level meetings with...
View ArticleAkıncı continues to hope for Cyprob solution by year’s end
In a statement following the community leaders’ meeting last Friday, President Akıncı announced that significant progress had been made on matters related to the executive, legislative and judiciary...
View ArticleFundamental Islam greatest danger to Turkish Cypriots
Retired colonel Cenk Diler, responding to the attempted military coup in Turkey on 15th July said that that the biggest threat to Turks and Turkish Cypriots was Islamic fundamentalism, Turkish Cypriot...
View ArticleMembers of Turkish military arrested in TRNC
Ten officers in the Turkish army, stationed in North Cyprus, have been arrested and taken to Turkey. Sweep operations have begun after the failed coup attempt in Turkey. Colonels, lieutenant-colonels,...
View ArticleExplosion at filter plant sparks fire at Gecitkoy
Fire broke out around Gecitkoy reservoir at 7pm on Monday evening, after an explosion occurred at the water treatment plant. It was impossible to control the fire as the flames spread westward. The...
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