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The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has stressed that Turkey must pay without delay €60 mln in damages to Greek Cypriots who cannot access their properties in the Turkish-occupied north. According to a CoE statement, its Committee of Ministers has “firmly insisted on…

Mesut Hakkı Caşın, the Turkish president’s advisor on security and foreign policy, indirectly hinted at the possibility of harm to UN troops in Cyprus should they infringe upon what he termed the sovereignty of breakaway Turkish Cyprus. He also claimed that the…

The violent attack on Unficyp personnel in the buffer zone by Turkish Cypriot soldiers and policemen, some in plain clothes was universally condemned by the international community. Never before has an incident in the buffer zone been condemned in such unequivocal terms…

Cyprus’ finance minister said on Monday that the country has repaid ahead of schedule the remaining 1.58 billion euros ($1.73 billion) of a 2.5 billion euro ($2.74 billion) loan it received from Russia in 2011 amid a brewing financial crisis. Harris Georgiades…

The US State Department has called on the Turkish authorities to remove its drilling vessels from the territorial waters around Cyprus and to cease immediately any “unlawful activities”. The demand comes as Turkey has established a significant presence in the waters off…