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Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci announced on Wednesday that a decision had been made to allow Maronites to return to all their villages in the north of the island. Akinci’s office said it is working with other civil and military...

By Michael Goodyear* In the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman government under the Committee of Union and Progress (“CUP”) orchestrated massacres of its Christian minorities, resulting in ethnic cleansing that would lead to the deaths of hundreds...

The President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades met with Pope Francis in Vatican City on Monday. Anastasiades, along with his wife Andri and a score of Cypriot officials, were welcomed by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church...

The Turkish Cypriot administration has decided to play a new oppressive political game with total disregard to human rights.  This time they have directed their attention on the non-Muslim enclaved Cypriot minorities in the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus,...

No sooner the Crans-Montana fiasco come to an inglorious end that the Cyprus government entered into a nasty blame game and has chosen to ignore the danger signs from that conference. The political parties on the other hand criticized the...

There is much at stake with the Cyprus Talks, aimed at reunifying the divided island. The Maronite minority in particular is facing the possibility of the extinction of their language, Cyprus Maronite Arabic (CMA) or Sanna, according to UNESCO...

Cyprus House of Representatives is set to make a decision on Thursday, April 14 to dissolve the present parliament ahead of parliamentary elections. The Minister of Interior will proceed after the dissolvement of the House with the proclamation of the...

Having a solution to a problem is better than not having one at all. But one could equally ask: what kind of solution can be considered fair in comparison? Is a resolution that endeavors to split and fragment a...

On Saturday, December 7, Cypriot farmers held a peaceful protest at the Astromeritis crossing point against the intrusion of Turkish troops in the buffer zone, that prevents them from cultivating their land. The farmers in their tractors were gathered in...

Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou Markoullis has protested the continuous violation of the rights of Greek Cypriots, enclaved in the island’s northern Turkish occupied areas. Addressing an informal meeting of her EU counterparts, she said that since the 1974 Turkish invasion...

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a famous phrase asks: “To be, or not to be, that is the question!” That question is also valid when it comes to the Cyprus issue: to negotiate, or not to negotiate, that is the...