SOS Children’s Village Raffle draw date changed
The date of the SOS Children’s Village World Children’s Day Raffle draw has changed from June 1, 2015, to June 10, 2015. The raffle will be drawn on Wednesday June 10, 2015, at Bayrak Radio Television...
View ArticleGreece and Turkey aim to enhance relations
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu held a joint press conference yesterday in Ankara emphasising the significance of a settlement in Cyprus. Çavuşoğlu...
View ArticleTalks resume on Friday – not all are happy
Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı and Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades will meet on Friday at 10.00 am to launch the resumption of the Cyprus negotiations which were halted in October...
View ArticleUlucay temporarily takes post as FM
Following the appointment of former Foreign Minister Ozdil Nami as the new Cyprus negotiator, Teberruken Ulucay will act temporarily as foreign minister until someone new takes up the post permanently....
View ArticleNEU Hospital Clinic to open in Kyrenia
A new NEU Hospital clinic in Kyrenia will be inaugurated by the Turkish Ambassador to Nicosia İbrahim Akça, on 15th May, Friday, a Near East University press release says. The Hospital says that it is...
View ArticleTurkey to boost payments to Council of Europe
Turkey is to pay 34 million euros ($38.6 million) a year to the Council of Europe, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday. The increase, from 13.6 million euros currently, is part of...
View ArticleFlag-flying couple face 5 years’ jail
A young couple have expressed their anger, disappointment and bewilderment when told they were to face charges of conspiring to undermine and insult the TRNC. Turkish Cypriots Koray Basdogrultmaci and...
View ArticleTRNC experiences total black-out
Due to a technical breakdown at the Kalecik power plant, all of North Cyprus was left without power for one and half hours today. The cause of the technical problem is not yet known. Kibris Postasi...
View ArticleDenktas to resign as Deputy PM
Deputy Prime Minister Serdar Denktas has announced that he will be resigning his position as Deputy PM and as a Minister for Economy, Sports, Culture and Tourism. Someone else would be elected from his...
View ArticleCyprus talks resume this morning
The Cyprus talks which were halted last October, have resumed this morning. President Mustafa Akinci arrived first at the UN buffer zone in Nicosia, with recently appointed negotiator Ozdil Nami,...
View ArticleKTFF joining Cyprus FA is an own goal: Denktash
Serdar Denktas has said that he will not block the recently approved new regulations for the Turkish Cypriot Football Federation (KTFF). Following the recent application by KTFF to join the Cyprus...
View ArticlePresidents to meet twice monthly for talks
UNSG Special Advisor Espen Barth Eide has said that both presidents would be meeting again on 28th May. Speaking to the press after the first meeting in the resumed Cyprus negotiations, he announced...
View ArticleAkinci speaks after leaders’ meeting
Following the four and an half hour long Presidents’ meeting held today in UN buffer zone, Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı gave a press statement outside the presidential palace. Akıncı noted...
View ArticlePresident Akinci against Akkuyu nuclear power plant
President Mustafa Akıncı has added his voice to the anti-nuclear movement, saying that building a nuclear power plant at Akkuyu in Mersin district, poses serious risks to the region and its...
View ArticleGuarantor powers should leave Cyprus: Kotzias
Turkey and Greece should resolve their problems peacefully by creating common interests in the region, making use of the “God-given” opportunity of being neighbouring countries, Greek Foreign Minister...
View ArticleFamagusta groups demand opening of Dherynia crossing
Members of Turkish Cypriot Famagusta Initiative and Greek Cypriot Famagusta, our City gathered at opposite sides of the Dherynia crossing in Famagusta on Saturday. They demanded that the crossing be...
View ArticleSyrian helicopter downed by F-16, Turkey claims
Claims that a Turkish jet shot down a Syrian helicopter violating its airspace yesterday, were countered by a Syrian state TV report, which said that it was a surveillance drone that had been shot...
View ArticleTurkey will not give up its rights as guarantor
Turkey will not give up its guarantor rights in Cyprus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Speaking to journalists accompanying him on his return from visits to Germany and Belgium last...
View ArticleBi-communal seminar on domestic violence to be held
A bi-communal seminar on domestic violence prevention will take place in May in Nicosia. A joint statement by the bi-communal technical committees on crime, criminal and humanitarian matters says that...
View ArticleTwo bombs explode at Kurdish political party offices
Two branches of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were the target of bomb attacks today. A loud explosion rocked the second floor of a building housing the local HDP office in...
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