Cyprus

Greece's Defense Minister Evangelos Apostolakis said from Cyprus on Wednesday that Greece will defend its sovereign rights in a decisive manner. Apostolakis is on an official visit to Cyprus, where he met both with the President of the Republic Nicos...

Andrey Maslov, the Russian Ambassador to Greece, claimed in an interview on Wednesday that the Prespa Agreement destabilizes the Balkans. Speaking with Greece's ERT1 channel of the public broadcasting network, the Ambassador declared that North Macedonia had been pushed into...

Turkey will send a second drillship to the Eastern Mediterranean, the country’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday, as tensions over exploration rights off Cyprus continue to escalate. He said that seismic exploration has been completed, and the time...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday likened Turkey’s actions inside the island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to a "second invasion" and a violation of international law. “It is clearly a violation of international law, or, as I could describe it,...

Kypros Michaelides apologized on Tuesday on behalf of the Cypriot police to the families of the victims of Nicos Metaxas, the admitted serial killer from Cyprus. The new chief of the Cypriot Police Force made his apology during the official ceremony on Tuesday...

Speaking at NATO’s ''North Atlantic Council Mediterranean Dialogue Meeting'' held in Ankara on Monday, President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey expects NATO to support its rights in the Eastern Mediterranean. Erdogan's remarks came only a few hours after a strong...

Cypriot authorities sent the geographical coordinates of the country's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to the United Nations on Monday, following Turkey's provocative actions inside the island's EEZ boundaries. Nicosia also plans to publish the coordinates of its EEZ to the...

President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades appointed Kypros Michaelides as the new police chief of the country and Stylianos Papatheodorou as the new deputy chief of the police force, on Monday. Michaelides has served as deputy chief under...

The US State Department called on Turkey on Sunday to cancel its plans to drill off Cyprus, accusing Ankara of risking raising tensions in the region. In a statement the US State Department notes that "the United States is deeply...

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar reiterated Sunday the hardline stance on drilling inside Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone. Akar told Anadolu News Agency that Ankara is determined to protect its rights in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea under international...