Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes Turkey demonstrated a "historic stance" in the Eastern Mediterranean vowing to continue illegal energy exploration off Cyprus. "Turkey is showing a resolute stance in the Eastern Mediterranean," Erdogan said. He added that Turkey maintained its activities in the East Med – with two seismic and drilling vessels, frigates and
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Cypriot female sprinter Eleni Artymata has secured her place at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games after finishing third in the 400 metres in Madrid with a time of 51.34 seconds behind Polina Miller (51.00) and US athlete Jaide Speter (51.18). She is the first Cypriot field and track athlete to secure her spot in the
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Cypriot Defence Minister Savvas Angelides is to brief his EU counterparts in Helsinki on Turkey’s continued illegal drilling activity in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone. Angelides will take part in the informal EU Council meeting in Helsinki on August 28-29 where is also expected to have bilateral meetings with a number of his counterparts and visit
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Simos Ioannou was elected mayor of the Turkish-occupied Municipality of Famagusta, securing 48.94% of the ballot or 4,697 votes in a record low turnout. Ioannou succeeds Alexis Galanos, who passed away last month. Voter turnout was 30.73%, with 9,707 people voting out of 31,584 registered voters, while 69.27% chose to abstain. According to the final
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Cyprus first division clubs appear to be attracting higher-profile players with the lure of fat contracts, family security and guaranteed warm weather on tap. Players who have played for better teams in the Premier League, La Liga and France’s Ligue 1 are now coming to Cyprus. But these are big names coming towards the end
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By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Last Friday was supposed to be all about monetary policy when leaders of major central banks gathered for the Fed’s annual policy symposium in Jackson Hole. Instead, the spotlight shifted to the US-China trade war as both hit each other with new tariffs. China’s Ministry of Finance
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. Examining the real estate market, we note that it will be faced with some serious problems in the near future. There is an over-supply of real estate coming into the market for sale by the financiers and various funds that have acquired mortgaged properties to resell. Whereas the advertised prices are not as
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Areas around the capital have been turned into illegal tipping sites as residents and rubbish collectors are dumping home and construction waste in fields and riverbeds threatening the environment and public health. Moreover, the government has come under fire from MPs and Municipalities for doing nothing to rectify the situation. Illegal landfills have been created
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. There is obviously a hardcore of Britons who want to leave the European Union whatever the circumstances, no matter the consequences. These are presumably people who don’t travel abroad, don’t need a job, aren’t too fussed about the Americans buying the NHS and are quite happy to grow their own while stocking up on
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Turkish Cypriots in the occupied north of Cyprus are angry after the ruling coalition of the National Unity Party (UBP) and the People’s Party (HP) decided to slash the Cost of Living Allowance by two percentage points. COLA to be adjusted to salaries of public sector workers from July was set by the previous coalition
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