Cyprus

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on the phone together on Friday evening, according to an announcement by the former's office. A press release noted that the two leaders discussed developments on the Cyprus...

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades briefed Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on negotiations that took place last week at Mont Pelerin, Switzerland, concerning the Cyprus issue. The two sides of the island are close to making a conclusive agreement, and...

Greece supports a fair and viable solution of the Cyprus issue, which constitutes a primary goal for Greeks and Cypriots, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday, after a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades in Athens. “Solving the Cyprus...

According to tweets on Monday from Cypriot government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides, this Wednesday President Nicos Anastasiades is set to arrive in Athens to meet with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for talks. As the UN-led Cyprus talks are entering what...

The arrival of Barack Obama in Greece on Tuesday marks the fourth visit of a U.S. President in the country, 17 years away since the last one. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first American President who visited Greece. Eisenhower came...

The Cyprus talks continue in the hopes of finding a solution to end the divide of the island caused by the illegal military occupation of Turkey since 1974 of its northern third. The current UN-led talks are seen as a “last...

Cyprus President, Nicos Anastasiades, and Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci, had an in depth and extensive exchange of views on the two sides' territorial adjustment criteria, included in a joint document that was drafted in Mont-Pelerin, where talks on...

A boat filled with 130 refugees capsized off the north-east coast of Cyprus on Wednesday. Cyprus' Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC) sent forces to tow the boat to the Latchi harbor in Paphos, including a helicopter that was used...

Archaeologists and restoration experts have completed the first phase of the restoration of the Church of Apostolos Andreas in the Karpasia peninsula in the north of Cyprus. Last Monday the church was handed over to the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage after...

In preparation for this week’s visit to Mont Pelerin resort in Switzerland for a bit of “horse-trading” the President spoke on national television station RIK 1 on November 4, in an attempt to “inform” his people on the progress...