Amid a backlash, Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has refuted issuing a list of 42 Turkish Cypriot critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who are barred from entering the country. The persona non
President Nicos Anastasiades has asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel to pressure Turkey to help resume Cyprus talks and terminate Ankara’s illegal activities against Nicosia. According to a press release issued by the
EU-Turkey relations are under ongoing assessment at several levels, after Ankara announced a new survey mission in the Eastern Mediterranean with its vessel Oruc Reis, said European Commission spokesperson for foreign affairs
President Nicos Anastasiades appeared disappointed on Friday that the lack of implementation of UN resolutions have allowed Turkey the audacity to pass itself off as a victim. “I stand here before you,
Austria’s minister for the European Union accused Turkey of using migrant flows as a means to pressure the 27-member bloc for its own purposes and warned that the EU wouldn’t be “blackmailed”
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou has ordered a probe into English teachers instructed to “tear out” a page from a school textbook referencing the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. This was
Cyprus accuses Turkey of “blatant disregard of its legal obligations” to comply with judgements issued by the European Court of Human Rights in paying outstanding compensation in Greek Cypriot property cases. Nicosia
Ankara and Turkish Cypriot politicians have condemned Cyprus’ decision to ban a schoolbook for praising modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The Education Ministry withdrew the English language book “until a solution
European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, has called on Turkey “to reverse the actions undertaken in Varosha since October 2020”. She said Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s and Turkish Cypriot leader
Cyprus ranked fourth among EU member states when it comes to military expenditure in 2019, after Estonia, Greece and Latvia. According to figures published on Friday by Eurostat, €168.5 bln was spent
