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Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said today that Cyprus expects Turkey to demonstrate genuine political will and negotiate in good faith for a political settlement to reunite the island. “We do hope and expect that Turkey, whose military still occupies the northern...

The members of the European Parliament approved on Wednesday a resolution on the progress of reform in Turkey in 2014 that called on Turkey to begin to withdraw its troops from Cyprus. The report did not make any reference to...

President of the House of Representatives Yiannakis Omirou has pointed out that one must not forget the ecological destruction in the areas of Cyprus under Turkish occupation, noting that Turkey does not respect the Greek Cypriot properties or cultural...

Athens is concerned that it may be excluded from the Gazprom-backed construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline as Slovakia has proposed an alternative route for Russian gas to Europe. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico met with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry...

By Costa Carras* Few international journalists anticipated the 60% vote for a new and very different Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci. For Turkey, the only UN member state to recognize the state which declared independence in 1983, he is now...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, along with other NATO Foreign Ministers, sang "We Are the World" together. NATO Foreign Ministers met on Wednesday in Antalya, Turkey, for a two-day meeting. The state officials discussed the...

There a few people in Greece nowadays who know that one of the founders of the Ottoman and later Turkish Red Crescent was Greek and his name was Marko Pasha (Markos Apostolidis Pitsipios). In fact, his name is still...

By Andriana Petratos The newly elected leader of Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus, Mustafa Akinci, during his sworn-in ceremony mentioned that he is willing to open up occupied Varosha in exchange for the reopening of Tymvos port and airport. During his address, Akinci said:...

The President of the Cypriot House of Representatives Yiannakis Omirou has welcomed earlier today the election of Mustafa Akinci as the new leader of the Turkish-Cypriot community. As he said, the election of the new leader of the Turkish-occupied Cypriot territories is...

An Eritrean migrant who was saved when the boat that was illegally transferring her and almost 200 more illegal migrants to Greece sank just off the coast of Rhodes, gave birth to a health boy on Thursday at Rhodes...