The arson attack against the Grand Mosque Larnaca, situated in the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus, is deeply saddening. Measures to deter possible future attacks towards places of worship should be taken. However, the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus has chosen to remain idle, until today, against the attacks towards our religious values [...]

A TRNC citizen was arrested by the officials of British Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) Administration on 29 November 2021 for allegedly engaging in an illegal activity in the village of Pile which is located in the buffer zone. We strongly condemn the handing over of our citizen by the SBA Administration to the Greek Cypriot [...]

We understand that the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus (GCA) granted permission to the Exxon Mobile-Qatar Petroleum Consortium for hydrocarbon exploration in the so-called unilaterally declared block 5. This act, which is the most recent proof of the Greek Cypriot side’s insistence on continuing its activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, clearly shows that the [...]

The Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus (GCA) continues incessantly to raise tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean by carrying out unilateral hydrocarbon exploration activites around the island of Cyprus. By issuing a new NAVTEX on November 12, 2021, the GCA announced that it would conduct exploration activities with the Nautical Geo vessel in the areas [...]

The Greek Cypriot administration of Southern Cyprus has recently launched an armament program despite the fact that it knows that it would lead to the escalation of tension. In addition to purchasing unmanned aerial vehicles and heavy weaponry, the Greek Cypriot side has also increased the number of and deepened the military alliances against our [...]

It is apparent that the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) is standing idle in the face of the increasing civilian and military violations of the Greek Cypriot side in the buffer zone. Some time ago, the Greek Cypriot side constructed a cinema in the buffer zone in Derinya, in violation of the status [...]

We have learned that racist and hostile expressions such as “Cyprus is Hellenic land”, “Turks out”, “EOKA once again” have been written on the walls of the Nicosia Technical School in South Cyprus.   The increasing intolerance against the Turkish Cypriots, one of the two peoples of the island of Cyprus, is the product of [...]

As it is known, irregular migration is becoming increasingly complex as communication and transportation have globalized and the repercussions of the poverty, economic and/or political instability in some countries have global effects. The problems resulted by this phenomenon, namely “irregular migration”, are beyond the means of a single country to overcome. Therefore, the prevention of [...]

The Greek Cypriot administration of Southern Cyprus (GCA) has been escalating tension in the Eastern Mediterranean through its continuing hydrocarbon related activities with an Italian-owned and Maltese-flagged vessel named NAUTICAL GEO. The Greek Cypriot administration, through a NAVTEX issued on 20 October 2021, has stated that it will commence exploration activities between the dates 21-23 [...]

The matters included in the joint statement made by the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus, Greece and Egypt after the tripartite summit on October 19, 2021 do not reflect the political and legal realities on the Island. There are two separate States on the island of Cyprus, one is the Turkish Republic of Northern [...]