Turkish F-16 Flyover Escape Beach for Dawn Vigil
The 10th Annual Dawn Vigil, which celebrates Peace and Freedom Day, will feature a first this year. This evening (19 July) at 21.30 on Yavuz Çıkarma Plaji (Escape Beach) the Dawn Vigil will begin with a concert headlined by popular singer Yasar. Meanwhile the vigil proper will begin at midnight, where scores of people arrive […]
Strike an Energy Deal or Lose Out Columnist Says
“The Turkish side has a point when it says cooperating on gas exploration and production could help bring the sides of the long-running conflict closer together; they’d be business partners in a lucrative venture. It also makes sense that Cyprus’ Turkish community should share in the energy wealth discovered near the island in 2011,” ‘Bloomberg’ […]
Akinci Seeks Five-Party Meeting re Cyprob
President Mustafa Akinci has called on UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres to personally undertake action to convene an unofficial five-party meeting to clarify the process aimed at finding a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus problem. In a letter sent to the UNSG on 10 July 2019, Akinci underlined the importance of an unofficial meeting between all […]
GC’s Rejection of Akinci Proposal Predictable: Tatar
Prime Minister Ersin Tatar, has said that it was clear that the proposal submitted by President Mustafa Akinci to President Anastasiades regarding the establishment of a joint committee on the hydrocarbons would be rejected. He said that the view of the Greek Cypriots on this matter was that they would find the hydrocarbons around the […]