Cyprus

A startling public exchange between Nikos Christodoulides and Mevlut Cavusoglu, the respective Foreign Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus and Turkey, took place in front of the press in New York on Monday. The two officials spoke together for more...

President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday that just as he is determined to engage in an honest and creative dialogue, he is equally determined to never do so until Turkey ceases its illegal and provocative activities. Speaking at...

Cypriot Deputy Minister of Shipping, Natasa Pilides told parliament that a passenger ferry between Cyprus and Greece is expected to begin in May 2020 ending two decades without such a sea link. As a result of surveys and studies conducted...

Ersin Tatar, the so-called ''Prime Minister'' of the illegally occupied northern part of Cyprus said on Friday in Ankara that his ''administration's'' plan to re-open the fenced-off town of Varosha in Famagusta ''will be completed in the next ten...

Cyprus has protested what they term “the continuing violations of the national airspace and the territorial waters of Cyprus by Turkey" at the New York headquarters of the United Nations. The protest is included in a letter to UN Secretary-General...

A Greek Cypriot woman and her daughter were arrested in the occupied north on Sunday  and are expected to appear before a military court on Monday, charged with taking photos in the town of Morphou. According to Turkish Cypriot reports, the...

Authorities in the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus have issued an arrest warrant for a 16-year-old Greek-Cypriot boy for allegedly taking down a Turkish flag from a schoolyard in the occupied town of Lysi. The incident, captured on a CCTV camera,...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu repeated on Thursday his threat that Turkey intends to annex and open to the public the ghost town of Varosha in the occupied part of Famagusta province on Cyprus. Speaking to the television network CNN Turk,...

A Greek-Cypriot student was spotted bringing down the Turkish flag last Sunday from a school in the occupied town of Lysi in the north of Cyprus. The incident, captured on a CCTV camera, reportedly occurred as hundreds of Greek Cypriots...

Several people were slightly injured after consecutive explosions occurred in a military zone Thursday near the Turkish-occupied city of Kyrenia. According to Cyprus News Agency, the explosions took place at an ammunition depot following a fire that began 30 minutes...