Regarding the news in the Greek Cypriot media that the leaders will jointly announce the agreements made until today at the meeting on 27 May, Presidential Spokesperson Barış Burcu said, “There is not such a decision taken by the leaders.” In his written statement, Burcu mentioned that some news on the issues of security and [...]

In his message due to May 9, Europe Day Prime Minister Hüseyin Özgürgün expressed: “The common aim of the Turkish Cypriot people is to take part within the EU family and also the EU integration process cannot be completed without Turkish Cypriot people and Turkey.” On the other hand, Özgürgün stated that the legitimate demands [...]

Lefkoşa Turkish Municipality (LTB) Mayor Mehmet Harmancı attended the 8th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns which was organized by Sustainable Cities Association (ICLEI) in Bilbao, Spain. LTB is also a member of this Association. Nearly a thousand mayors, vice presidents and senior representatives from 200 cities and 43 different countries attended the conference. LTB Mayor [...]

Approximately 160 Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot students at various ages met at a workshop within the framework of bi-communal peace culture training project. The workshop was financed by the European Union and conducted jointly by POST Research Institute and Historical Dialogue (POST RI) and Research Union (AHDR) on 7 May 2016 in the buffer [...]

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) said that up to 1,061 individuals or companies in South Cyprus have acted as “officers” or “master clients” and are linked to up to 2,761 offshore companies. The individuals and companies are based at up to 896 addresses in South Cyprus, the ICIJ said on its offshoreleaks.icij.org website on Monday [...]

In his speech to the Turkish News Agency Cyprus (TAK), Prime Minister Hüseyin Özgürgün said: “As the government we support the on-going negotiation process between President Mustafa Akıncı and Turkey. Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu and his team support the President at every stage of the negotiations. As the government our greatest wish is to conclude [...]

The Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Serdar Denktaş said that deadlock of the negotiation process is out of the question. Making a statement to the Greek Cypriot daily Kathimerini newspaper, Serdar Denktaş mentioned the settlement, new citizenships and other issues. As an answer to the question regarding the concerns of both the Greek and [...]

The US President Barack Obama indicated in the bi-monthly report on the Cyprus problem that “The United States is committed to finding a just and lasting settlement reunifying Cyprus as a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation” The new bi-monthly report on Cyprus to the Congress, by President Barack Obama, focused on the “historic” visit of Secretary of [...]

President Mustafa Akıncı received Turkish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu and his accompanying delegation. Turkish Cypriot Negotiator Özdil Nami, Presidential Spokesperson Barış Burcu and Undersecretary Gürdal Hüdaoğlu also attended the meeting. No statement was made to the press before or after the meeting. [...]

President Mustafa Akıncı said that Turkey could not fulfil all the necessities of recognizing or not recognizing the ‘Republic of Cyprus’ in the current international circumstances regarding the visa Liberalization Dialogue between Turkey and the European Union. Speaking during one of his receptions, President Akıncı evaluated the “third progress report on the visa liberalisation roadmap.” [...]