Cyprus

The Foreign Ministry in Ankara insisted on Tuesday that no initiative in the Eastern Mediterranean that excludes Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) will succeed. "The...

Egyptian President Abdel fattah Al-Sisi has arrived in Athens where he will participate in the ninth Tripartite Summit with his Greek and Cypriot counterparts. The summit is designed to...

The Israeli government yesterday warned its diplomatic missions and embassies around the world of what it described as "imminent attacks by Iran." Channel 12 quoted a government statement as...

A court in Cyprus today extended the detention of a man that Israel alleges was a would-be assassin recruited by Iran to attack Israeli businesspeople on the island, Reuters reports. The...

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday accused Iran of attempting to assassinate Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi in Cyprus last week. "Regarding some of the reports last...

President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Ersin Tatar on Saturday met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the 76th session of UN General...

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) will resolutely continue following its path in the Eastern Mediterranean without any separation from Turkey, said the country's prime minister on Sunday,...

Mediterranean nations must lead the way in addressing climate change, the Greek prime minister said, warning that the cost of doing nothing was unimaginable, with mankind possibly struggling to...

The direction of a massive oil slick from Syria's Mediterranean coast has turned towards the shores of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), a Turkish Cypriot official said...

Turkey has revealed that it is helping to prevent an oil slick from reaching Cyprus, Anadolu has reported. The slick in the Eastern Mediterranean started with a leak last...

The government of Cyprus said today it would revoke the passports from Turkish Cypriot officials in the breakaway state in the northern part of the island, Reuters reports. A number of...

Maras was abandoned after a 1984 UN Security Council resolution stipulating that only its original inhabitants could settle in the town.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday raised its travel warning level for Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories due to the rising number of COVID-19...

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry voiced deep concerns on Wednesday about a planned change in the abandoned resort of Varosha in Turkish Cyprus, Egypt Today has reported. Varosha contains derelict...

Turkish Cypriot authorities announced on Tuesday the partial reopening of the abandoned town of Varosha, Al Jazeera reports. Varosha, an eerie collection of derelict high-rise hotels and residences, has been deserted...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has reassured his Greek counterpart Katerina Sakellaropoulou that Israel continues to side with Greece and Cyprus in their dispute with Turkey, local media have reported....

"Those who criticise Turkey with the Cyprus Peace Operation continue to distort the historical facts", the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Ersin Tatar, said on...

What: Turkey's invasion of the north of Cyprus following a military coup which aimed to annex the island to Greece When: 20 July 1974 Where: Cyprus What happened? Upon...

Greece should give up its maximalist claims and conceive ways to benefit from regional resources together with Turkey, said Turkey's communications director. Turkey wants good relations with all neighbors,...

Four people were found dead as a huge fire raged for a second day in Cyprus, razing tracts of forest in a blaze one official called the worst on...

Negotiations on Cyprus' future can start only if the sovereign equality of Turkish Cypriots is accepted, Turkish Cypriot President Ersin Tatar said yesterday, Turkish News Agency-Cyprus (TAK) reports. According to the...

Official negotiations on the Cyprus issue can start only after the recognition of the sovereign equality of the Turkish side, the Turkish Cypriot president said Saturday, reports Anadolu Agency....

Turkish Cypriots are in favor of "the new policy", a two-state solution, on Cyprus as decades of negotiations for a federation failed to resolve the Cyprus issue, said the...

The Lebanese army yesterday said it had thwarted an attempt to smuggle 11 irregular migrants out of the country by water from the northern city of Tripoli. "The Lebanese...

Cypriot authorities forced a boat carrying 56 migrants to return to Lebanon from where they had set off on Sunday. Authorities checked the documents of those onboard the boat...

Cruise operator Royal Caribbean is cancelling a new line that had been scheduled to run from Israel to Greece and Cyprus from next month, citing regional security concerns, reports...

European Union (EU) member states' pushback of asylum seekers and refugees seeking to enter Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of over 2,000, according to a report by...

Last week, an informal meeting began in Geneva linked to the Cyprus peace talks. It was an initiative by UN Secretary-General António Guterres as he seeks common ground for...

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday there is "no common ground yet" to resume official negotiations to resolve the Cyprus issue. "The truth is that at the...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday that Ankara fully supports the two-state solution to end the dispute over the island of Cyprus. "We fully support the Turkish Cypriots' vision,...

The leaders of Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriots met in Geneva yesterday to find a common ground on the divided Mediterranean island with the support of the UN, four years after the...

The UK supports a "comprehensive, just and lasting resolution of the Cyprus problem," a British government statement said ahead of unofficial talks that were to commence yesterday in Geneva. " talks...