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Christodoulides heads to Antalya for COP31 after EU push

President Nikos Christodoulides leaves for Antalya in Turkey on Tuesday afternoon to attend the leaders’ summit of the UN...
Politics

Cyprus moves to block Sinirlioglu’s UN bid as diplomatic record raises questions – First vote ends in setback

The Republic of Cyprus has launched an international diplomatic campaign to prevent Turkish official Feridun Sinirlioğlu from becoming the...
Politics

Cyprus tells UN Turkish pipeline surveys violate its sovereignty

Cyprus has told the United Nations that Turkish seabed surveys for a planned natural gas pipeline between Turkey and...
Economy

Turkey challenges Greek notice for Crete-Cyprus cable survey

Turkey issued a counter-Navtex on Friday claiming that part of the area covered by a Greek Navtex, published hours...
Politics

Turkey says gas pipeline project with Turkish Cypriots can provide power to whole island

Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said a planned natural gas pipeline linking Turkey and the occupied north could eventually...
Politics

Turkey’s foreign minister meets Erhurman as crossings answer awaited

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman in the occupied north on Friday, as the...
Opinion

Cyprus push for the last mile hinges on Ankara

We are watching every contact, meeting and conversation on the Cyprus problem closely. For the Greek Cypriot side, the...
Politics

Turkey’s Sinirlioglu trails rivals in UN secretary-general straw poll

Turkey’s candidate for UN secretary-general, Feridun Sinirlioglu, received three encourage votes and eight discourage votes, with four members expressing...
Politics

EU report again links Turkey ties to Cyprus talks

The European Commission’s annual report on Turkey, published on Wednesday, again links progress in EU-Turkey relations to a resumption...
Politics

Democratic Congress gives Nicosia more diplomatic room, analyst says

Democratic control of both houses of the US Congress gives Nicosia and Athens more room to press their case...
Politics

Turkey rejects EU report’s Cyprus findings as “detached from reality”

Turkey on Wednesday rejected the European Commission’s findings on Cyprus in its annual enlargement report, which rejected Ankara’s call...
Politics

EU Commission tells Turkey to normalise ties with Cyprus

The European Commission called on Turkey on Wednesday to normalise its relations with the Republic of Cyprus and reverse...
World

Cyprus MEP calls for EU maritime security operation in Eastern Mediterranean

Costas Mavrides of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) today urged Brussels to consider a naval mission modelled on existing EU...
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