Man arrested for threatening flight safety
A man was arrested by police yesterday, accused of deliberately aiming a high powered laser light at two separate airplanes, early yesterday morning. The man, Yunsal Gunsev residing in Beyarmudu...
View ArticleHunting Season begins Sunday
The small animal hunting season starts on Sunday August 18th. Hunting is permitted on four days. August 18th, August 25th, September 1st and September 4th between sunrise and sunset. Hunters will be...
View ArticleUBP Conference to be held end August
The UBP party announced yesterday that it would hold its general conference on August 31st. Initially the leader of the party and ex-Prime Minister Irsen Kucuk had set a date of mid-October. It is...
View ArticleDialysis unit for Kyrenia Hospital
Thanks to the bequest from the will of Marion Cooper, £84,000 was left to the Kyrenia State Hospital. The head teacher had lived in the TRNC for 17 years and passed away last year. In her will she left...
View ArticleTurkish Lira Interest Rates to increase further
It is well known that Mr Erdogan is against rising interest rates. He has been very explicit about this. In fact in one speech he has threatened to ”choke’‘ speculators. However he cannot stand against...
View ArticleWildfire Crosses Border
A wildfire raging in the South (Pirgo) area was driven by high winds east across the border into the TRNC yesterday. All nearby fire fighting teams had been deployed but had not yet managed to control...
View ArticleYesilirmak a disaster zone
The fire that began in South Cyprus and spread across the border into the TRNC has left an immense amount of damage in its wake. Thousands of trees have been reduced to ashes and huge swathes of green...
View ArticleCTP waits to hear from other parties
The general secretary of the majority party (CTP), Asim Akansoy has told the press today that he is waiting for written proposals from the other parties. Both the DP and UBP party leaders have been met...
View ArticleSouth wants Cyprob talks to begin soonest: Photiou
South Cyprus Minister of Defence, Photis Photiou, speaking at the memorial service for reservist Second Lieutenant Demetris Stavros, who was killed during the 1974 Turkish peace mission and was missing...
View ArticleYesilirmak fire loss count
This region was known as a lush, green area. It has now been turned into a burnt of wasteland. Thousands of trees and animals were destroyed within 24 hours. The fire started in the South and swept...
View ArticleTurkish Cypriots will not abandon bi-zonality: Eroglu
Turkish Cypriot daily ‘Kibris’ newspaper reports that the Turkish Cypriot President, Dervis Eroglu has reiterated that the Turkish Cypriots are not considering abandoning their self-administration,...
View ArticleBlaze at Yesilirmak renews calls for fire fighting helicopter
A fire spreading across 1000 hectares of land, reached Yesilirmak village and destroyed thousands of trees and animals in the north-west of the island, on Saturday. 200 thousand cypress trees, pine...
View ArticleIstanbul Jazz Festival begins September 25th
The Akbank Jazz Festival will run between Sept 25 and Oct 12. This jazz festival is one of the longest running in Turkey and this year will be its 23rd year. The festival will provide jazz-lovers with...
View ArticleCTP to form coalition with DP
The leading CTP party has now met with all the other parties in order to put together a coalition government. Over the last few days the field was narrowed down to the two largest potential partners,...
View ArticleMan illegally re-entering TRNC arrested
In 2002, 34 year old Tarik Aydinar illegally crossed the border to the South. He has apparently been living in the South for the last 11 years. However he was arrested on August 18th as he was...
View ArticleIstanbul riot police tear gas ”justice marchers”
Once again a demonstration held by a small group of protesters, who gathered together to march to Gezi Park, was broken up by Istanbul riot police using tear gas, yesterday. The protesters included a...
View ArticleTeknecik to implement environmental safety measures
After the oil spill disaster at Kalecik, safety measures are being tightened at the main Teknecik power plant. The plant is running out of fuel to power its generators and has only a few days’ supply...
View ArticleShock resignation of party leader
The TDP party met for the first time since the elections of June 28th. During this meeting there were a number of significant resignations. The party leader, Mehmet Cakici, along with the general...
View ArticleTurkish interest rates rise again
My last three finance articles have focused on Turkish lira interest rates. I have done this because interest rates are on the way up again and because many people in the TRNC are interested either as...
View ArticleBreaking: Fuel being offloaded at Teknecik
Following reports that the Environment Minister Mehmet Harmanci had refused permission for the offloading of fuel oil at the Teknecik power station, it has just emerged that offloading has commenced...
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