Car smuggling gang exposed
Police have caught a gang of criminals that specialised in smuggling cars into the TRNC from South Cyprus. These cars were then broken down for spare parts, which were exported to Egypt. Nicosia police...
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Starling launches home delivery service
North Cyprus residents and visitors can now benefit from online grocery shopping, similar to grocery home delivery services available in the UK. In a bold move, responding to public demand, Starling...
View ArticleNoble Energy starts 2nd drilling in block 12
Noble Energy International has announced that the Ensco 5006 has commenced drilling at the A-2 appraisal well location in block 12. “It is estimated that drilling the well will take approximately three...
View ArticleBogaz picnic area in Kyrenia privatised
Another example of the flurry of activity by the Council of Ministers before they disbanded for the elections has emerged. This time it is the leasing out of the Bogaz picnic area. Coupled with a...
View ArticleTourist numbers in TRNC see big increase
Reflecting the intensive promotion campaigns of the government, tourist numbers have increased significantly over the last four months. Most of the recent campaigns have concentrated on London and have...
View ArticleVictims of ‘haircut’ in South lose Supreme Court appeal
Petitioners who applied to the South Cyprus Supreme Court were disappointed to learn that their appeals have been rejected. The government had made a decision to impose a ‘haircut’ on uninsured bank...
View ArticleErdogan shelves shopping mall plan
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has shelved plans to build a shopping mall at the controversial Gezi Park while calling for an end to more than 10-day protests during his speech at the...
View ArticleAnnan plan was flawed: Eroglu
President Dervis Eroglu has argued that the Annan Plan was a flawed solution for Cyprus and that on the contrary it was a plan which would have created unrest. Replying to journalists’ questions,...
View ArticleEL-SEN accuses Energy Minister of favouritism
Head of the electricity workers union, Caglayan Cesurer issued a press statement earlier today. The statement accuses the Energy Minister Sunat Atun (pictured above) of attempting to favour the private...
View ArticlePower outage across TRNC
As parts failure at Kalecik power station, earlier today put pressure on the remaining electricity generating plant at Teknecik. This plant also failed, meaning that electricity was cut off to the...
View ArticleTurkish police storm Taksim Square and Gezi Park
Earlier this morning, police used rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon to clear protesters from Taksim Square. They then removed barricades and makeshift shelters using bulldozers and refuse...
View ArticleVassilkos power station will be repaired by August
Repair work at South Cyprus Vassilikos power station will be completed by August. The largest power plant in the South was severely damaged in July 2011, when containers of seized Iranian munitions,...
View ArticleGreek Cypriot jailed for 15 months
A man originally from Georgia but settled in South Cyprus with his family has been sentenced to 15 months jail for drug trafficking. Charalambos Kelesides appeared at Nicosia court yesterday where he...
View ArticleKucuk meets Erdogan
Prime Minister Kucuk met Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan yesterday. The meeting lasted for 1 hour 30 minutes and focused on current and proposed inward investments by Turkey. Topics covered included the...
View ArticleTRNC has first female Prime Minister
The three opposition parties have agreed to support Ms Sibel Siber as interim Prime Minister. She will be announcing her cabinet in the next few days. Ms Siber will serve as Prime Minister until...
View ArticleDecision time: Which way will Erdogan jump this month??
Turkey Financial markets: Key decision Coming Up In my last post (June 2nd), I wrote about the effect that US financial policies have on emerging markets in general and Turkey in particular. At that...
View ArticleIstanbul lawyers storm courthouse in protest
More than 2,000 lawyers staged a massive protest today inside Istanbul’s Caglayan Courthouse, where nearly 60 lawyers were detained in a police raid after protesting against the government over the...
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Government website hacked in favour of protestors
The well publicized hacking group ‘Anonymous’ turned their attention to the Turkish government today. RTUK, a government institution that regulates television and media agencies in Turkey became a...
View ArticleCyprus Airways unions strike threats
Cyprus Airways (CY) unions threatened strike action yesterday if the government did not compensated employees who were to be made redundant in the latest attempt to save the ailing national carrier....
View ArticleEPA halts construction on Tatlisu beach
Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Esref Unlusoyer said yesterday that construction work around Tatlisu beach had been stopped because the necessary permits had not been obtained. The...
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