A small delegation from the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) will visit the British capital in mid-March in the hope of discovering new information about the fate of people reported missing during the Cyprus Conflict. Representatives of the CMP will be in London for five days, from Monda...
Britain’s position on Cyprus remains unchanged, its officials in Nicosia have stated, after Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades claimed that Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK did not wish to continue in its role as a guarantor country. Cyprus gained independence from the UK in 1960 follo...
Fifty five years ago today, the United Nations (UN) Security Council passed a resolution, the ramifications of which continues to be felt decades later. Three years after the independence of Cyprus from British rule, leaders of the Greek Cypriot community initiated their notorious Akritas Plan, whi...
Measures aimed at bringing Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots closer together were set in motion this week – as South Cyprus said that it had made a new discovery of natural gas. Plans to enable people in Cyprus to use their mobile phone lines on both sides of the divide will now be implemented,...
The UK will not take “even the smallest step” to recognise the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) because of Greek Cypriot threats over the future of the Sovereign Base Areas, a member of the House of Lords has said. Conservative peer Lord Balfe said that the TRNC was “right not to trust”...
A public meeting with People’s Party (Halkın Partisi,HP) leader Dr. Kudret Özersay at Yalova Spor Kulübü, Lower Bostancı, on Friday evening had to be called off after a local citizen smashed the venue’s windows and chairs during an angry confrontation. The suspect, named locally as Taşkın Güneş, has...
Former international football star Didier Drogba is to attend a match between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots next month, it has been announced. The Ivory Coast and Chelsea legend will be among those in the stands to watch a game between top tier outfits Mağusa Türk Gücü and Nea Salamina, acc...
This weekend, a Turkish Cypriot will embark on a 24 hour charity bike ride to help raise vital funds towards lifesaving treatment for an old school friend. Talin Tasil is aiming to raise £2,000 to help 27-year-old Hope Stringer travel to the USA for pioneering treatment of sarcoma cancer. Hope...
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) is close to commencing drilling operations in its quest to discover offshore hydrocarbon reserves – in an area that Greek Cypriots also claim they have exclusive rights to – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kudret Özersay has announced. Dr...
A Greek Cypriot political party leader was forced to distance himself this week from one of his own European election candidates after she claimed that “Cyprus is Greek”. Averof Neofytou, head of Democratic Rally (DISY), the biggest party in South Cyprus’s parliament, stopped short, however, of a...
