Dear T-VINE, I was dismayed to read your recent article about the advice Turkish Cypriot activist Kemal Baykallı gives to the newly elected leader in South Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides (Unite Cyprus Now co-founder Kemal Baykallı offers some words of advice for new Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christodoulides, 1 Mar. 2023). The advice Baykallı offers undermines […]
Until 20 July 1974, the so-called ‘Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ of the so-called ‘Republic of Cyprus’ didn’t care a bit for International Law. Otherwise, by the summer 1965, the 1960 Constitution that formed the power-sharing Republic of Cyprus between Greek and Turkish Cypriots could have been fully restored. But Greek Cypriots preferred to continue […]
The Greek Cypriot tourism sector will see one of its biggest markets evaporate this summer following its government’s decision to impose economic sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine, with Turkiye set to benefit instead. Stanislav Osadchiy, Russia’s Ambassador to Cyprus, told a local media outlet that Greek Cypriots had ‘shot themselves in the foot’ by […]
The British Speaker of Parliament Sir Lindsay Hoyle has confirmed that he will be meeting with Turkish Cypriots during his historic trip to Cyprus this week. It follows an outcry from British Turkish Cypriots ahead of Sir Lindsay’s three-day visit to the divided island that those north of the Green Line were being deliberately excluded […]
Ten years ago today, Rauf Raif Denktaş – the man many people regard as the father of the Turkish Cypriot nation – passed away at Near East University Hospital from multiple organ failure. The former President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus’ (TRNC) health had been deteriorating following a stroke he suffered in May […]
Baby Asya Polatlı has received potentially lifesaving gene therapy treatment in a South Cyprus hospital earlier today. The one-year-old toddler is being kept overnight at the Makarios Children’s Hospital in South Nicosia for observation after being administered Zolgensma, a pioneering one-time treatment for severe spinal muscular atrophy (Type 1 SMA). The drug is administered as […]
Two Turkish Cypriot sisters booked to fly on Emirates airline to the United Arab Emirates from Cyprus last month have complained of ‘discrimination’ and ‘racist abuse’ by the airline’s check-in staff at Larnaca Airport. Nilufer and Gulnaz Nejmi want to see the staff members responsible for the alleged abusive behaviour to be “retrained or removed”. […]
The British High Commission in Nicosia has issued a statement concerning new procedures from the Greek Cypriot-controlled Republic of Cyprus affecting British nationals in North Cyprus. From 1 October 2021, those living in or visiting the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus can cross freely across any Green Line check-point into South Cyprus as many times […]
For the past three weeks, travellers from North Cyprus leaving the island via an airport in the south have faced nervous trips across the Green Line border, unsure whether their PCR tests will be accepted at Larnaca and Paphos Airports. Dozens have been randomly turned away by airport officials when trying to check-in, prompting accusations […]
Differences for those living in the north and south of Cyprus have come to the fore on multiple occasions during the coronavirus pandemic, and it does so again over the issue of Covid-19 vaccination certificates. With the United Kingdom choosing to keep Turkey on its high risk Red country list and Cyprus on the moderate Amber, […]
