Home buyers warned not to buy pre-1974 Greek Cypriot properties
Property buyers are being warned not to buy pre-1974 Greek Cypriot houses in the TRNC. In a report by Turkish Cypriot daily Cyprus Today, the head of the TRNC Estate Agents Union Hasan Sungur has said...
View ArticleLeaders agree on road map leading to UN General Assembly
President Mustafa Akinci and President Nicos Anastasiades have agreed on a road map in the first round of intensified talks which concluded on Friday. The second stage will begin on 23rd August after a...
View ArticleAkinci meets with British life peer Lord Richard Balfe
President Mustafa Akinci met with a member of the UK Parliament’s TRNC Friendship Group, Lord Richard Balfe at the president’s office. Akinci’s Special Adviser for Political Affairs and History Meltem...
View ArticleDemonstration to be held in front of Assembly
The Reddediyoruz (We are rejecting) Platform is organising a marching and a demonstration on Thursday evening prior to the decision of the Constitutional Court regarding the legality of establishing a...
View ArticleSouth not genuine about Cyprus solution: Tatar
Ersin Tatar, MP for the National Unity Party (UBP) has called on President Akinci to “seriously tackle” the Greek Cypriot stance in the Cyprus negotiations. Tatar who issued a written statement said...
View ArticleTurkey’s Foreign Ministry warns against drilling in its territorial waters
A statement Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç has been published in response to the third international tender for off-shore hydrocarbon exploration by the Greek Cypriot...
View ArticleAkinci donates 50,000 euro to CMP
President Mustafa Akinci has announced that the presidency has donated 50,000 euro to the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus for research to be carried out on the 1963, 1964 and 1974 periods to...
View ArticleClandestine FETO meetings held in Bellapais
The headquarters of the Fethullah Gulen Terrorist Organisation (FETO) in the TRNC is located in Bellapais, at the house of journalist Nazli Ilicak (above) who was arrested on July 26 for connections...
View ArticleSouth rejects Turkey’s claim on bloc 6
South Cyprus has rejected Turkey’s claim that bloc 6 of the South’s EEZ is Turkish maritime territory. Responding to a statement issued on Tuesday by Turkey’s foreign ministry, which warned energy...
View ArticleGuarantees are non-negotiable: Yildirim
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim referring to the issue of guarantees in Cyprus has said that “this is not an issue for negotiation”. In an interview on Genc TV in Ankara, Yildirim said: “This...
View ArticleProtest held against Turkey’s ‘Youth and Coordination office’
A protest march and demonstration organised by the Reddediyoruz (We are rejecting) Platform, was held yesterday. The platform says that some conditions of the establishment of a youth and coordination...
View ArticleContract signed for roadworks at Derinya crossing
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced that a contract to undertake road works for the Derinya checkpoint has been signed. Road works under this contract will cover only the...
View ArticleGovernment to receive over 3 billion TL budget from Turkey
The government has announced its targets for the economy, particularly the development plans it has for industry. Minister for Economy and Energy Sunat Atun Atun, said that the government aims to...
View ArticleTurkey ordered to pay property compensation by IPC
Lawyers representing a Greek Cypriot have withdrawn their appeal by mutual consent at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the effectiveness of the Immovable Property Commission (IPC)....
View ArticleToros disputes risk of buying pre-1974 Greek Cypriot properties
Chairman of the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce Fikri Toros has criticised statements made by Hasan Sungur, head of the TRNC Estate Agents Union, for advising property buyers not to purchase...
View ArticleConstitutional Court decides on validity of sports coordination office
The TRNC Constitutional Court announced yesterday that part of a protocol signed between Turkey and the TRNC contravenes the TRNC constitution. Although the protocol between Turkey and the TRNC to...
View ArticleTurkish Cypriots increasingly unhappy
Turkish Cypriots are increasingly dissatisfied with the way the TRNC is being governed, according to the latest survey held in the North by the Centre for Migration, Identity and Rights Studies, a...
View ArticleWe will never give up Guzelyurt: Ozgurgun
Prime Minister Huseyin Ozgurgun has said that Guzelyurt will never be returned to the Greek Cypriots and that the TRNC will continue investing in the area. In an interview with Turkish Cypriot Diyalog...
View ArticleShooting stars display expect to peak on Thursday
The Perseid meteor shower is predicted to especially spectacular this year since there will be twice the number of particles in the sky, according to astrophysicist Chrysanthos Fakas. The peak of the...
View ArticleNegotiators continue meetings while leaders take a break
Chief negotiators, Andreas Mavroyiannis and Ozdil Nami have a met three times this month, to prepare for a series of eight meetings between the two community leaders in September. Mavroyiannis and Nami...
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