54 h. ago North’s population ‘590,000 excluding students and soldiers’

The north’s population is 590,000, excluding foreign students and Turkish soldiers, ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Tuesday night. Speaking to Diyalog TV, he said the ruling coalition is working to create an “address-based census system” to record the north’s population, with that system said to be “80 per cent complete”. Additionally, he said, “the […]

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3 d. ago Fidan meets Guterres ahead of New York Cyprus problem meeting

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday evening ahead of next week’s planned enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, which is set to take place in New York. The pair met on the sidelines of the Brics summit which is taking place this week in Rio de Janeiro, with […]

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1 week ago New €2.5m electric vehicle subsidy plan expected to be exhausted early

The government’s new subsidy plan for electric vehicles is expected to be fully claimed before its official deadline, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Saturday, pointing to considerable interest from car importers and the public. With the new plan, Vafeades said, the government would invest state resources amounting to €2.5 million. “Therefore, we are starting […]

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2 w. ago Greece rejects Turkish Foreign Minister’s claims on minority rights and Cyprus

Greece rejects Turkish Foreign Minister’s claims on minority rights and Cyprus  The Greek Herald

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2 w. ago New provocative statements by the Turkish Foreign Minister on Cyprus and Thrace

New provocative statements by the Turkish Foreign Minister on Cyprus and Thrace  Orthodox Times

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3 w. ago Tatar calls Israel’s Sa’ar ‘impudent and hostile’ over Erdogan and Cyprus comments

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday described Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s comments on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Cyprus problem as “deliberate, impudent, and hostile”. As Sa’ar and Erdogan engaged in a spat on Wednesday evening, Sa’ar had said Erdogan “illegally holds northern Cyprus”, prompting Tatar’s ire. “This statement is an […]

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3 w. ago Our View: President embarrassed himself and Cyprus by engaging in public diplomacy 

President Christodoulides’ relentless efforts to give the Cyprus Republic and himself a ‘role’ in international affairs backfired at the weekend, when the spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry issued a denial about the president’s public claims that Iran had asked Cyprus to “convey some messages to Israel”. The guess was that this alleged request had […]

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