Mustafa Akinci

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci will meet tonight over dinner at their first encounter since settlement talks collapsed in Switzerland last July. The meeting will take place at the residence of the UN Secretary General’s...

Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı approved a new four-party coalition government on Feb. 2. The Republican Turkish Party (CTP) leader Tufan Erhurman will be the prime minister of the  new coalition government, taking over from Huseyin Ozgurgun. Though his National Unity...

Voicing frustration over the collapse of peace talks last summer to reunite Cyprus, the president of self-proclaimed Turkish Cyprus Mustafa Akinci said on September 14, that Turkish Cypriots have no intention of entering an open-ended process with an unclear...

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...

"I'm very sorry to tell you that despite the very strong commitment and engagement of all the delegations and different parties ... the conference on Cyprus was closed without an agreement being reached," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said...

Monday's discussions on the thorny issue of security and guarantees concluded in the evening after a session lasting one and-a-half hours, during which Cyprus' three guarantor powers (Greece, Turkey and the UK) and the leaders of the island's two...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres met with Cyprus President and the Turkish Cypriot leader and said that there is now an understanding of what is needed for a possible settlement on Cyprus. In a U.N. backed conference that started on June...

The Conference on Cyprus will reconvene in Geneva on June 28 at the political level, under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UNSG`s spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement. “In line with the statement issued following...

The proposal tabled by Cyprus President Nicos Anastasides is realistic and could unlock the negotiations over a Cyprus settlement, the Greek Cypriot side said on Friday, as Anastasiades and the Mustafa Akinci, the Turkish Cypriot leader, will head to...

On Wednesday United Nations Secretary-General Gutteres invited Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci and Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades to New York for a joint meeting to discuss the Cyprus talks and the way forward, Stéphane Dujarric Spokesman for the UNSG...