Forty two years and a day after their deaths, 33 Turkish Cypriot men from the village of Tochni (called Taşkent in Turkish) were buried in the Taşkent Martyrs Cemetery during a moving ceremony attended by their relatives, TRNC dignitaries and many members of the public. President Mustafa Akıncı, former President Mehmet Ali Talat, Speaker of […]
Young Turkish Cypriots are up in arms after the TRNC Parliament approved a protocol between Ankara and Lefkoşa that paves the way for the Turkish government to directly control the finance it provides North Cyprus for education, culture, youth and sport. The investments will be supervised by a new office set to open in the […]
Turkey is battling a major fire in the Kumluca district of Antalya. People have been evacuated away from the path of the two-day old fire, which has spread to the resort town of Adrasan and Çıralı village, and entered the Beydağları Coastal National Park that contains the historic Olympos (Lycia) site. İsmail Üzmez, head of […]
The TRNC and Turkey are set to join Greek Cypriots and an international emergency team battling against a devastating blaze in the Troodos Mountains. The fire broke out in Evrychou (Evrihu), a village in the foothills of Troodos six miles away from Lefke in the TRNC and 31 miles southwest of Nicosia, on Sunday. Police […]
On Thursday, Mustafa Akıncı and Nicos Anastasiades will meet for the first time following a row over a dinner in Istanbul, which the Greek Cypriot leader refused to attend in protest at the inclusion of his Turkish Cypriot peer at the same event. Last week, Akıncı travelled to Istanbul to attend a banquet hosted by […]
The failure by international actors to safeguard the political equality of the two sides could hamper the chances of UN-backed Cyprus Talks reaching a positive resolution in 2016. A mini crisis has been triggered following Nicos Anastasiades’ announcement in February that there is to be a third licensing round to exploit the island’s gas-reserves. The […]
Mustafa Akıncı has cruised to a second round victory against incumbent Dr Derviş Eroğlu in today’s Presidential Elections to become the fourth TRNC President since the founding of the Turkish Cypriot republic in 1983. Both candidates had run as independents, with Akıncı’s pro-Cyprus unity policy courting most favour with the electorate, as he took every […]
There was no outright winner from yesterday’s Presidential Elections in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. A total of seven candidates stood and as predicted, none could pass the fifty percent threshold to avoid a run-off. The top two candidates, incumbent Derviş Eroğlu from the TRNC political right and backed by the National Unity Party […]
Next Sunday, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus will go to the polls to elect a new President. Seven candidates are vying for the political hot seat, including incumbent, Dr. Derviş Eroğlu. The TRNC operates a Parliamentary political system, which means the Presidency is primarily a symbolic role. However, since the times of the first […]
