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Turkish Cypriot leader sets rotating presidency as condition for UN talks

Turkish Cypriot President Tufan Erhürman has said he is ready to attend a trilateral meeting with the United Nations if Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christodoulides agrees unconditionally to a rotating presidency, as the U.N. prepares to host talks on Nov. 9. “If he agrees to a rotating presidency without any preconditions, I am ready to attend immediately,” Erhürman said during an interwivet with BRT late on Oct. 21.

Hurriyet Daily News 2 min read 3 views Read →
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Erhurman promises to start negotiations if Christodoulides accepts rotating presidenc...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman has said that he will “immediately” accept the opening of formal negotiations with the aim of resolving the Cyprus problem if his counterpart, President Nikos Christodoulides, unconditionally accepts that there be a rotating presidency in a post-solution Cyprus. He said the issue had most recently been raised during the United

Cyprus Mail 3 min read 14 views Read →
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Erhurman confirms rejection of Christodoulides’ Varosha proposal

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman late on Tuesday night confirmed that he had rejected a proposal put forward to him by President Nikos Christodoulides to open and repopulate the fenced-off area of Varosha under the United Nations’ administration and open the port of Famagusta under the European Union’s control. “Handing over Varosha to the United

Cyprus Mail 3 min read 9 views Read →
Home and living

Three suspected of attacking Turkish Cypriot released without charge pending investig...

The three people who were arrested on suspicion of having kidnapped and assaulted a 24-year-old Turkish Cypriot man in Limassol were released without charge pending the completion of investigations into the matter, the police said on Wednesday. All three were arrested and then questioned, with the police saying that their investigation into the matter is

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Second arrest made over Limassol attack on Turkish Cypriot

A second arrest was made on Tuesday over the kidnapping and assault of a 24-year-old Turkish Cypriot man in Limassol, police said. The arrested man is 45, with the police already having arrested a 30-year-old man early on Tuesday morning, while the police said that the two, as well as a third individual who is

Cyprus Mail 1 min read 6 views Read →
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Christodoulides and Erhurman to meet again next week ahead of UN envoy’s visit

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman agreed to meet again next week following what the United Nations described as a constructive meeting on Tuesday in the UN Protected Area in Nicosia. According to the UN, the two leaders continued discussions on confidence-building measures, methodology and the substance of the Cyprus problem. They

Cyprus Mail 1 min read 6 views Read →
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Leaders meet, Christodoulides hopes for positive developments

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman meet on Tuesday at 11am in Nicosia, with Christodoulides saying he was approaching the meeting with the sole aim of achieving positive developments. On Monday, Christodoulides said the UN had proposed dates for a joint meeting between the leaders of the two communities and the UN

Cyprus Mail 1 min read 5 views Read →
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Suspect arrested over Friday’s kidnapping, two at large

A 30-year-old man was arrested early on Tuesday in connection with the kidnapping of a 24-year-old man on Friday in Limassol and causing grievous bodily harm. The police are searching for two other suspects. On Monday, the police confirmed that a 24-year-old Turkish Cypriot man was kidnapped and attacked with a knife in Limassol. The

Cyprus Mail 2 min read 5 views Read →
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Kyrenia commando Katsanis’ daughter presents book in Nicosia

A book by Angeliki Katsani on her father, Georgios Katsanis, the commander of the 33rd Commando Squadron who died in the Turkish invasion of 1974, has been presented in Nicosia. Titled Georgios Katsanis, The Commander of St Hilarion and His Legacy, the event was organised by the veteran commandos’ association (Psasn) and Yermanos Publications. Katsanis was

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Christodoulides hopeful of positive developments at meeting with Turkish Cypriot lead...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday that the United Nations has proposed dates for a joint meeting between the leaders of the two communities and the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy on Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin, with the Greek Cypriot side having already responded positively. Christodoulides said he was approaching Tuesday’s meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader

Cyprus Mail 2 min read 61 views Read →
Home and living

Reporting system for illegal use of Turkish Cypriot properties launched

Strengthening transparency, meritocracy and good governance in the management and allocation of Turkish Cypriot properties remains a firm priority for the interior ministry, it said on Monday. As part of these efforts, the Turkish Cypriot Properties Management Service has created an online form for submitting complaints and reports concerning the illegal use of Turkish Cypriot

Cyprus Mail 2 min read 97 views Read →
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Turkish Cypriot ‘attacked’ by Greek Cypriots in Limassol

A Turkish Cypriot was allegedly attacked in Limassol on Friday night, the police said on Monday. A police spokesman told the Cyprus Mail that the force was informed by telephone that an attack had occurred, and that it is expected that the victim will come forward and officially report the crime to the police later

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Home and living

Christodoulides, Erhurman to meet on Tuesday

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman will meet on Tuesday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday, with the meeting the latest of ongoing weekly discussions being held by the pair. “Our goal remains to achieve substantive progress in the effort to resume negotiations from the point at which they were interrupted,

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Home and living

Erhurman: Guterres said Barcelona camp cancellation was ‘discouraging’

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Sunday said that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had told him that initiatives undertaken by the Greek Cypriot side to bring about the cancellation of international events organised by the Turkish Cypriots over the course of the summer were “discouraging”. He said he had received a reply to the

Cyprus Mail 3 min read 80 views Read →
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Cypriot leaders attend bicommunal festival amid renewed push

The leaders of ethnically-divided Cyprus attended an annual bicommunal festival in the village of Pyla late on Oct. 17, marking a symbolic step as diplomatic efforts to resolve the island’s long-standing issues are ongoing. Turkish Cypriot President Tufan Erhürman attended the event wearing a neck brace due to a recurrence of a cervical disc herniation but made no public remarks.

Hurriyet Daily News 3 min read 22 views Read →
Home and living

Christodoulides accuses Erhurman of ‘setting preconditions’ on resumption of talks

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday accused Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman of attempting to set “preconditions” on the resumption of negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem, in reaction to the Turkish Cypriot side’s insistence on a rotating presidency between the two communities in a post-solution Cyprus. “It is clear that the Turkish side … is

Cyprus Mail 3 min read 76 views Read →
Home and living

Turkish Cypriot fuel workers’ strike ends with layoff decisions reversed

Workers at Cyprus Turkish Petroleum (K-Pet) on Saturday brought to an end their strike after the company reversed its decision to lay off nine workers, the Turkish Cypriot federation of revolutionary trade unions (Dev-Is) Semih Kolozali said. He told newspaper Yeniduzen that following negotiations between fuel workers’ union Petrol-Is, which is affiliated to Dev-Is, and

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Confidence-building measures ‘need to be implemented’, Holguin says

Confidence-building measures across Cyprus’ divide “need to be implemented” so as to “create trust and demonstrate with facts the actual political will” for rapprochement, United Nations Cyprus problem envoy Maria Angela Holguin said on Saturday. “If, over the past two years, the parties have been unable to agree on a crossing point to facilitate communication,

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Our View: Cyprus talks have become political theatre

Having failed to reach agreement on any of the six or seven confidence-building measures discussed last July with the UN Secretary-General, President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman stumbled on something they could actually agree on at their meeting on Tuesday. They would jointly attend the bicommunal peace festival that will be held

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