A member of the House of Lords has received a negative response to her question on whether the terms of the new free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and Turkey, signed after the UK’s exit from the European Union, will also apply to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Barone...
Ersin Tatar, the President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC), met with Dominic Raab, the British Foreign Secretary, at the TRNC White House on Thursday afternoon. The warm atmosphere of the meeting, which ran for over an hour, was reflected in the two men taking a stroll and then enj...
Travel restrictions preventing entry into the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) for all bar TRNC citizens from countries with a serious outbreak of the mutant Covid-19 strain have been eased, paving the way for foreign nationals with TRNC residency to return. Following pressure from local g...
Four men and one woman accused of abducting and killing Nigerian university student Kennedy Taomwabwa Dede in 2018 have been found guilty at Gazimağusa (Famagusta) Criminal Court. They were each sentenced to between 9 and 27 years in jail. Nidai Şanlı, who had gone on the run after the attack, wa...
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is due in Cyprus on Thursday, 4 February, to meet with the two Cypriot presidents Ersin Tatar of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) and Nicos Anastasiades of South Cyprus.Dominic Raab’s 24-hour visit will also include a meeting with Elizabeth Spe...
Tonight a group of current and former British Parliamentarians will form part of a panel to debate ‘What is the future for Cyprus?’ Chaired by former government Minister Brooks Newmark, the panel comprises of Andrew Rosindell MP, former MPs Lee Scott and Michael Stephen QC, and Professor Hüseyin...
Ersin Tatar, the President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) has met with British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie and senior British diplomat Ajay Sharma. The three men came together for a working dinner on Thursday evening, 21 January, to discuss the UK’s bilateral relations with N...
At least 191 Turkish Cypriots have died from Covid-19 – over half in the last two months – according to Ambassador Oya Tuncalı, who represents the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) in London. Within days of making this statement the figure had leapt again claiming the lives of a further 32...
A new Speaker of Parliament in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) was selected at the third time of asking. Önder Sennaroğlu, an MP for the ruling National Unity Party (UBP) was the only candidate to stand on Monday, 18 January. He was elected by a vote of 26-20, with two abstentions in...
The Greek Cypriot authorities have come under fire for implementing a discriminatory policy on the COVID-19 vaccines that are due to be delivered to the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) this week. Turkish Cypriots are set to receive two thousand Pfizer BioNTech vaccines sent by the Europea...
