5 h. ago Situation at crossing points ‘will not be easier’ after Cyprus joins Schengen area

The situation at the crossing points which connect Cyprus’ two sides “will not be easier” than it is today after Cyprus joins Europe’s border-free Schengen area, former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator Ozdil Nami said on Monday. “I do not know what kind of problems will arise because of Schengen, because how the Greek Cypriots will […]

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3 d. ago Venezuela’s Nobel laureate Machado says she aims for peaceful transition after Maduro

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado said on Friday that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro would leave power, whether there was a negotiated changeover or not, adding that she was focused on achieving a peaceful transition. The Venezuelan opposition leader arrived in Oslo early on Thursday, defying a decade-long travel ban imposed by authorities in […]

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3 d. ago North ‘PM’ Ustel’s undersecretary faces fresh bribery allegation, remanded again

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel’s undersecretary Huseyin Cahitoglu faced a fresh allegation of bribery on Friday after it was alleged in court that he had demanded a bribe of €100,000 for “transactions to be carried out” within one of the north’s public institutions. That allegation comes on top of others levelled against him at […]

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3 d. ago Turkish, Greek Cypriot leaders signal renewed push for peace talks | Daily Sabah

Turkish, Greek Cypriot leaders signal renewed push for peace talks | Daily Sabah  Daily Sabah

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3 d. ago Turkish Cypriot President Erhurman says Cyprus talks cannot begin without full four

Turkish Cypriot President Erhurman says Cyprus talks cannot begin without full four-point framework  Türkiye Today

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3 d. ago Islamist scholar says he regrets praying for Tatar, Tatar says he never met him

Controversial Turkish Sufi scholar Ahmet Unlu, colloquially known as ‘Cubbeli Ahmet’, on Thursday night said he regretted praying for Ersin Tatar in advance of October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election, while Tatar responded by saying he had no recollection of ever meeting him. The back-and-forth came after Tatar had said earlier on Thursday that Unlu had cost […]

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3 d. ago ‘The real aim is a solution of the Cyprus problem with political equality’

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman agreed “that the real aim is the solution of the Cyprus problem with political equality as described by the United Nations security council resolutions” during a joint meeting with UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Thursday, the UN said. Meanwhile, Christodoulides left the meeting saying it […]

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4 d. ago Christodoulides, Erhurman visit Committee on Missing Persons

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman paid a joint visit to the Committee on Missing Persons’ laboratory in the buffer zone in Nicosia on Thursday, ahead of a tripartite meeting with United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin later in the day. The pair were joined there by Holguin and the UN’s special […]

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4 d. ago Tatar on election defeat: Turkish Cypriots did not accept being directed by others

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday evaluated the landslide election defeat which saw him removed from office in October, saying that the Turkish Cypriot people had refused to be “directed by others”. “The Turkish Cypriots are a free and self-determining people. They said, ‘we will never accept being directed by others’,” he told […]

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4 d. ago Hungary’s Orban government moves to stem fallout from juvenile centre abuse case

Hungary’s government has put state-run juvenile detention centres under direct police oversight, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said on Wednesday, trying to stem the political fallout from an abuse scandal at one such facility. Opposition leader Peter Magyar, whose Tisza party is leading opinion polls ahead of an election likely in April, on […]

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5 d. ago Letymbiotis: There can be no conditions in Cyprus problem negotiations if we want progress

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Wednesday said there “cannot be any conditions” placed on negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem, “if what we are really interested in is progress”. He was asked to comment on Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman’s four points to restart negotiations, and stressed that President Nikos Christodoulides will arrive at Thursday’s […]

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5 d. ago Erhurman: No enlarged meeting until the issues are developed

There will be no enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem until the issues which are to be discussed have been “fully developed” during talks in Cyprus, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman said on Wednesday. “We have not closed the door to a new conference in the 5+1 format, but such a step would not be […]

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5 d. ago Floodwater begins to recede in north, efforts continue to mitigate impacts

The level of floodwater in the north began to recede in the north during the early hours of Wednesday morning, with Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci saying that water levels in streams in the capital’s northern third have “dropped” and that as such, “the risk has decreased”. He wrote in a post on social […]

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5 d. ago Opposition perplexed as north ‘parliament’ convenes during flood

Opposition members of the north’s ‘parliament’ expressed their confusion on Tuesday after the Turkish Cypriot legislature convened despite residential neighbourhoods within a 15-minute walk of the ‘parliament’ in the northern sector of Ayios Dhometios finding themselves under feet of water during severe floods which hit the area. CTP leader Sila Usar Incirli led the calls […]

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7 d. ago North set to face ‘serious energy and water problems’ in 2026

The north will face “serious energy and water problems” next year, its ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Monday as discussions in the Turkish Cypriot legislature over next year’s ‘state’ budget began. He said that with the budget proposed by his own ruling coalition “it will not be possible to implement the projects we desire”. […]

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8 d. ago Turkish Cypriot opposition leader says early elections are ‘inevitable’

Sila Usar Incirli, the leader of Turkish Cypriot opposition political party the CTP, on Sunday said early legislative elections in the north are “inevitable”, as her party seeks a return to power for the first time since 2019. “The people are waiting for the CTP and we are ready. Early elections are inevitable,” she told […]

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8 d. ago ‘No developments’ in efforts to lift Turkish embargo on Cypriot ships

There have been “no developments” in efforts to lift the Turkish government’s ban on Cypriot-flagged ships entering its ports, Shipping Deputy Minister Marina Hadjimanolis said on Sunday. Speaking on the sidelines of an event in the Paphos district village of Yeroskipou, she said that President Nikos Christodoulides “always puts on the table the issue of […]

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8 d. ago Cyprus negotiators to meet before leaders’ tripartite with Holguin

Greek Cypriot chief negotiator Menelaos Menelaou and undersecretary to the Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Dana will hold a one-on-one meeting before President Nikos Christodoulides, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, and United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin hold a tripartite meeting on Thursday, according to reports on Sunday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that Dana and […]

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8 d. ago Our View: Erhurman’s election challenges president’s Cyprob narrative

For the last five years, thanks to the inflexibility of the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar the Greek Cypriot side was in control of the Cyprus problem narrative. This was even more evident after the election of Nikos Christodoulides whose talent for the political communications game and gesture politics is indisputable. As president, Christodoulides made […]

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9 d. ago Ustel decries Greek Cypriot ‘arms race’ in meeting with Turkish VP Yilmaz

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Saturday decried the “constant arms race undertaken by the Greek Cypriot side” during a meeting with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz in Ankara. He added that the Greek Cypriot community is making efforts to “destroy the economy of the TRNC”, and that this is “disturbing the people of […]

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