Turkish Cypriots made strategic error at Mont Pèlerin Summit: Ozersay
Chairman of the People’s Party (HP) and former Turkish Cypriot negotiator Kudret Ozersay, says that the Turkish Cypriot side had made a “strategic mistake” on the territory issue during the Mont...
View ArticleRoad accident claims the lives of two schoolgirls
At least three people were killed in a head-on collision traffic accident on the Girne-Değirmenlik mountain pass this morning. Tragedy struck when a school bus carrying high school students from...
View ArticleHow the Mont Pèlerin Summit came to a deadlock
Two Turkish diplomats who were following the process of the Cyprus Summit at Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland relayed detailed information on the negotiations back to Ankara as they happened. According to a...
View ArticleEide embarks on shuttle diplomacy to revive Cyprus talks
UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor to Cyprus Espen Barth Eide was in a flurry of diplomatic meetings on Monday, in a bid to assess the mood following the failed talks in Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland...
View ArticleUnions condemn Turkey for meddling in TRNC affairs
In a written statement, the general secretary of KTOS, Sener Elcil strongly condemned Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu for statements he made when he visited the Hala Sultan Theological School...
View ArticleCyprus issue must be concluded by year’s end: Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Erdoğan has accused the Greek Cypriots of being disrespectful by attending EU meetings with a flag that included the map of the whole island of Cyprus. Evaluating...
View ArticleTeen road deaths prompt Akinci to call for special cabinet meeting
President Mustafa Akıncı called for an extraordinary cabinet meeting this afternoon to discuss the issue of traffic following yesterday’s tragic traffic accident which claimed the lives of three...
View ArticleIt’s important to remain optimistic: Johnson
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson met with President Mustafa Akıncı at the Presidential Palace on Wednesday morning. Johnson’s visit to the island comes at a time of intense diplomatic activity to...
View ArticleAkinci still looking for compromise from the south
“Only through Turkey we could be opened to the world. In every field, our only open door to the world was Turkey”, President Akinci said. Addressing the 7th Bosphorus Summit, he said that the Turkish...
View ArticleNew Israeli ambassador arrives in Ankara
Israel sent its new ambassador to Turkey on Thursday. According to an unnamed Israeli official, the new Ambassador Eitan Na’eh had arrived in Ankara. Na’eh, a career diplomat, worked at the Israeli...
View ArticleEide holding dinner meeting with both leaders on Thursday
UN special advisor on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide will have a dinner meeting with the two Cypriot leaders on Thursday evening. Eide is tasked with the job of keeping the climate positive and re-igniting...
View ArticleCyprus talks back on track
Presidents Akinci and Anastasiades have agreed to resume the Cyprus negotiations immediately. After a dinner meeting on Thursday night hosted by UN Special Advisor Espen Barth Eide and his Deputy...
View ArticleThree years minimum to bring E. Mediterranean gas to Turkey
It will require a minimum of three years to be able to convey gas from the south’s Aphrodite gas field and Israel’s Leviathan field to Turkey and then onward to the world market, the general manager of...
View ArticleUnions demand minsters’ resignations and a return to DST
Turkish Cypriot unions are demanding the resignation of top officials after two 16 year old school girls and a bus driver died in a road traffic accident. The Turkish Cypriot platform of unions...
View ArticleAkinci briefs MPs at extraordinary session of Parliament
President Mustafa Akinci briefed representatives on the Cyprus negotiations at the Assembly which convened for an extraordinary session on Friday morning. Before the meeting, President Akinci told...
View ArticleTurkish MPs draft constitutional amendment granting president executive powers
Turkey’s ruling AK party in consultation with the MHP, have drafted a charter which, if passed by parliament, will grant President Erdogan more executive powers. “The works we have conducted with the...
View ArticleLira falls as Erdogan urges conversion of cash assets to TL
The Turkish Lira hit fresh lows against the US dollar after President Erdogan called on people and institutions to back the ailing currency against the dollar. Turkey’s main stock exchange, Borsa...
View ArticleSchool and business opening hours altered
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security has announced that working hours in the private sector have been altered and that business opening time will be 08.30 starting from Monday, December 5th....
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Step out for Tulips raises 60 thousand TL
When we (Carole King and Sue Tilt) originally talked about doing this challenge for Tulips/Help Those with Cancer Association, neither of us had the slightest idea of how very successful this challenge...
View ArticleDenktaş will vote ‘No’ in referendum
Now that the date for the five-party conference has been announced, extra concessions will be demanded from the Turkish Cypriots as the Greek Cypriots will say that they have taken a step back, Deputy...
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