Cyprus News

Turkey was ordered by the European Court of Human Rights Monday to compensate victims of the 1974 invasion of Cyprus.  In one of the largest judgements handed down by the Strasbourg court, Turkey has been ordered to pay 60 million euros...

Cyprus will not yet be revealing the identities of individuals and companies that transferred money off the island in the days leading up to last year's bail-in of bank depositors, the parliamentary House Ethics Committee declared Thursday. The committee decided...

Eminent Larnaca businessman Akis Lefkariti and another man have been arrested by Cyprus police on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor, it emerged last week. Fifty-seven year-old Lefkariti and 35 year-old Nikos Nikolaou from Oroklini, near Larnaca, have been held in...

Karolina Pelendritou, a Paralympic gold medalist from Cyprus, reset two separate breaststroke world bests in her category in three record-breaking swims over two days at the IDM Berlin 2014. On Friday, Pelendritou, who is visually impaired, broke the 200m breaststroke record (clocking 2:51.01) in...

Relatives of the Cyprus missing have requested Turkey provide all the necessary information about the fate of the Cypriots who went missing during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the summer of 1974. The President of the Committee on Missing...

The city-state of Sparta developed the most powerful war machine in ancient Greek history. Boys as young as seven were taken from their mothers by the state and sent to military bootcamp until the age of twenty. Inured to hardship, they...

The inner circle of the administration in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus has approved a proposal to allow Turkish Cypriots to register for land swaps with Greek Cypriots. On Tuesday, the proposal was passed down to what passes for a parliament in...

Although he almost single-handedly blocked talks trying to reunify Cyprus 40 years after it was divided by a Turkish invasion, Turkish-Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu now says he's confident renewed talks will lead to a deal this year. Eroglu, a hardliner...

Cyprus' Foreign Ministry is, in effect, telling residents not to visit Turkey because of what it called onerous changes in visa laws that mean Cypriot passport holders would have to declare that their country doesn't exist. Ankara bars Cypriot vessels from its...

Restoration work on the Othello Tower in the Turkish-occupied Cypriot city of Famagusta will begin in the next few days, according to Takis Hadjidemetriou, chairman of the Joint Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage. The Othello Tower built by the Venetians...