Current Events

  According to the Turkish Cypriot media, the floods happened due to uninterrupted rain that went on for days. Some resident even went on to claim it as the heaviest they had seen in years. At least 4 lives were claimed by an accident caused the rains. Said...

  The previously American-wide tradition-gone-global, which first came to significance in Cyprus around three years ago, was seen being observed with great pomp in the island nation. Black Friday refers to the day after Thanksgiving and since 1952 has been known...

  Nicos Anastasiades, the President of Cyprus has publicly apologized for the pardon and subsequent early release of a man, who was previously convicted on grounds of sexually exploiting a minor. Speaking at an event on fighting sexual abuse against minors, the...

  A leading figure from the section has apparently caused widespread alarm by calling another Cyprus invasion, more than forty-four years after the painful partition of the Mediterranean island nation. According to Meral Aksener's speech in the Ankara’s...

  According to a shocking new statistic revealed as part of a result of a study conducted ibn Cyprus, almost 60 percent of female violence victims never report the incident to anyone. Cyprus-based Advisory Committee on Prevention and Combating Violence in the...

  According to a news report by the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), The Church of Saint Anne in Famagusta has been restored to its former glory. Dated from the 4th century, the restoration was done by a team of experts with members from Greek as well as Turkish Cypriot...

  A well-known ceramics teacher was murdered in Turkish Cyprus. Hasan Işık Özgöçmen's body was found in a wooded area in the North Cyprus' Iskele district on Sept. 30. The Demirören News Agency has reported that the 53-year-old ceramics teacher was strangled to...

  The Greek Cypriot father and son duo, who were previously arrested in Turkish Cyprus, have been released from police custody. Charged and detained on grounds of illegally crossing into a military zone, 47-year-old Anastasis Martis and his 25-year-old son...

  Cyprus' Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has asserted that Turkey will continue to drill for gas off the Cyprus coast, regardless of any and all circumstances to make sure that resources are being shared fairly. Speaking at a university in the Eastern...

  Nikos Voutsis, Parliamentary President of Greece presented the first 4 volumes of the "Cyprus File" to Prokopios Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic. Prepared for over two years, the volumes contain all notes of the Special Examining Committee,...

  With the low-pressure system having wreaked havoc over Greece with constant storms, hail and lowering temperatures, Cypriot were fair to assume to have to face as similar fate. As it turns out, however, that all Cyprus may have to face is its temperature going...

  Mustafa Akinci, Turkish Cypriot leader had allegedly threatened to resign over the Cyprus issue, rather than taking another course that would help resolve and reunite the divided island nation. According to the daily Kibris Postasi, Mr. Akinci, who made the...

  The Turkey-Cyprus-Ankara maritime relations are already very strained, and if the latest developments are anything to go by, they might not resolve as soon as expected. According to several sources, the Turkish survey ship Barbaros was spotted off of Cyprus'...

  An armed robbery was completely foiled by it's to-be victim store owner. The Belgian store owner, in a bid to save his store, asked the thieves to return later as there was no money in the till. The gang of thieves, quite surprisingly, did return later - to be...

  A 29-year-old Somali woman and asylee in Cyprus reunited with her six-year-old daughter after over three years of being separated. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 29-year-old Samia was reunited with her...

  Two Russian tourists were killed due to their rental car having gone off a cliff in the Akamas. The two, who were man and wife and aged 58 and 48 respectively, were killed due to their rental car going off a cliff and plunging straight into the Akamas area's...

  Andrey Turukhano, champion spearfisher and captain of the St. Petersburg team died in Cyprus while doing some underwater hunting. According to Filleteferos, a Cypriot newspaper, Mr. Turukhano, 46, was found in the waters of Lara beach on the Akamas Peninsula....

  Nicos Anastasiades, the President of Cyprus, has arrived in New York to attend the UN General Assembly and meetings with Cypriot American organizations. Anastasiades, who will stay for a week in New York, is scheduled to visit the UN keynote address and meet...

  It has been found that the man in Turkish Cyprus who has been arrested on counts of espionage took 201 photos of Turkish soldiers in a time period of 16 days. Mehmet Besimoglu, 70, was arrested and detained in Famagusta recently by the Turkish Cypriot police...

  According to Cyprus' government spokesman, the island country has raised over 1.5 billion euros ($1.75 billion) from at an astonishing 2.4% percent interest rate. The spokesman, Mr. Prodromos Prodromou said the 10-year-old bond issue has been oversubscribed to...