The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday condemned Cyprus for returning to Lebanon two Syrian refugees who had arrived on a small boat, without examining their asylum claim. …

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has taken offence to Netflix over its decision to show the series ‘Famagusta’, which centres around the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Tatar has expressed immense …

Melbourne-based academic, Dr Michalis S. Michael will deliver the opening talk on the Famagusta Dialogues in August 21 – Tell it to the Lion. The Australia-initiated Famagusta Dialogues event coincides …

Officials have said that Cyprus is on standby to assist in evacuating Europeans and third-country nationals if conflict in the Middle East escalates. For several decades the Mediterranean island has …

Members of a global organisation of elected officials of Greek descent visited Cyprus this week, for a series of meetings over the illegal occupation of northern Cyprus and the need …

Sixty artefacts have been returned to Cyprus from Germany after they were looted in the Turkish invasion in 1974. According to Reuters, authorities formally received the antiquities on Monday as …

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that his country was ready to build a Cyprus naval base “if necessary”, 50 years after Turkish forces invaded the now-divided island. “If …

Turkey’s president has put a damper on hopes for a quick resumption of talks to heal a half-century of ethnic division on Cyprus, reaffirming his support for a two-state deal …

Popular Greek singer Despina Vandi was told to leave a town in Turkey after she refused to perform on stage after seeing it was adorned with the Turkish flag and …

This month marks 50 years since the dramatic events of 1974 left the Mediterranean holiday island of Cyprus divided to this day. On July 15, 1974, the military junta then …