https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/a-small-group-works-to-restore-a-desecrated-village-cemetery
This week, volunteers from Prastio, refugees since the Turkish invasion of 1974, unearthed dozens of weathered grave crosses scattered across the eastern edge of the village burial ground....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-parliament-backs-memorial-for-1974-cyprus-invasion-victims
The European Parliament has approved a proposal to erect a memorial dedicated to the victims and missing persons of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, a decision welcomed in the Republic but sharply criticized in the island’s north....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/when-a-mistake-led-us-to-a-better-story-the-divided-island-and-the-power-of-empathy
Sometimes mistakes lead us to the best stories. In our attempt to tell you about a film screening at the historic Ledra Palace, one that explores both sides of the Cyprus story, we at KNEWS made a classic journalist’s blunder. We got the wrong film. Yep, we mixed up the titles. We journalists screwed up… shocker, right?...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/without-repairs-or-an-elevator-elderly-refugees-can-t-reach-their-homes
The aging structure, meant to house families displaced decades ago, has long been promised repairs and an elevator, yet years of pledges have yielded little more than empty assurances....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/‘crazy-but-not-insane-hasguler-vows-to-return-varosha
In a political race already full of surprises, Turkish Cypriot academic Mehmet Hasgüler, running as an ''independent candidate'' for the ''presidency'' in the north, has stirred headlines with a mix of bold promises, eccentric charm, and calls for peace....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/what-independence
Shivers of excitement and delight were sent through lovers of the military industry by the two Greek fighter jets that crossed the blue sky of Nicosia last Wednesday, October 1, on the occasion of the anniversary of Cypriot independence....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/president-urges-turkey-to-end-occupation-and-promises-island-reunification-at-un-general-assembly
President Nicos Christodoulides called on Turkey on Wednesday to take “responsible” steps toward ending its occupation of northern Cyprus and achieving reunification, speaking to the 80th United Nations General Assembly....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/how-can-i-start-a-family-if-i-can-t-afford-a-home
A 28-year-old woman from Larnaca has put into words what many in Cyprus quietly feel: the dream of starting a family is slipping further out of reach, tangled in high rents, low wages, and the lingering wounds of 1974....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/undercover-sting-nabs-abbot-in-greek-antiquities-smuggling-scandal
An undercover police operation in northern Peloponnese has exposed an antiquities smuggling ring with a plot straight out of a crime thriller, and at the center of it all, the abbot of the famed Mega Spilaio Monastery....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-educator-and-children-s-author-maroula-theodosiadou-dies-at-92
Maroula Theodosiadou, a pioneering educator who dedicated her life to early childhood education and refugee children in Cyprus, has died at 92....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/tourist-gentrification
Abundant Mediterranean sunshine and the enticing sea have, over the years, served as the driving forces behind our tourism industry. One discussion, however, that does not seem to have occupied us as much as perhaps it should, at least institutionally, is that of tourist gentrification....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/u-s-lawmakers-demand-release-of-seniors-detained-in-occupied-area
U.S. lawmakers are urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to step in after five elderly Greek Cypriots were arrested while visiting their ancestral homes in areas of Cyprus controlled by Turkey....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/casino-boom-in-occupied-north-sparks-fears-for-future-peace-talks
In the shadow of international isolation, Cyprus' occupied north is gambling on a high-stakes future: doubling its number of casinos to 64....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/pentemili-beach-landing-site-of-turkish-forces-in-1974-to-become-military-museum
Pente Mili Beach, where the Turkish invasion of Cyprus began in 1974, will be transformed into a military museum managed by the Evkaf Administration, authorities said. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-id-rules-threaten-daily-life-at-cyprus-crossings
Turkish Cypriot ''officials'' are raising the alarm over reports that new rules at Cyprus’ checkpoints could spark fresh tensions on the divided island.
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-tells-un-conflict-related-sexual-violence-from-1974-remains-open-wound
Sexual violence from the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 "remains an open wound of the Cypriot society,” Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Maria Michail told the UN Security Council...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/the-board-of-british-cypriots-urges-london-to-clarify-terms-over-fighter-jet-sales-and-regional-security
The U.K.–Turkey defense agreement announced last month, which includes the sale of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets and broader defense cooperation between the two countries, has drawn strong reactions from the Cypriot community in Britain....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greek-and-turkish-cypriot-communities-join-to-repair-cemeteries-in-buffer-zone
A €700,000 program is under way to restore cemeteries along the Green Line, the United Nations-controlled buffer zone that divides the island....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greek-cypriot-crossings-to-the-occupied-north-drop-after-arrests
Fewer Greek Cypriots are crossing into the Turkish-occupied north following last month’s controversial arrests of five Greek Cypriots by the occupation authorities....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/cyprus-ghost-story-is-suffocating-its-future
Twenty-two years ago, in April 2003, I crossed a checkpoint for the first time with my mother and grandmother to see their old home in Famagusta....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-flight-route-links-london-stansted-to-occupied-north-via-turkey
A new flight route from London Stansted to the occupied airport of Tymbou in the northern part of Cyprus began operations on August 5, with a stopover in Istanbul or Ankara. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/who-set-troodos-on-fire-spoiler-alert-it-wasn-t-the-trees-fault
Let me kick things off with two completely unrelated questions: When exactly are all 13 mobile desalination units finally going to start working? ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/locked-up-for-visiting-their-land-cyprus-slams-occupied-north-over-political-arrests
The Cyprus government on Thursday strongly condemned the decision by Turkish Cypriot authorities to keep a Greek Cypriot couple in custody for three more months, calling it a ''premeditated abduction'' and a blow to ongoing efforts to rebuild trust on the divided island....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/malaria-s-shadow-lingers-as-greece-faces-imported-case-threat
Malaria, eradicated in Greece since 1974, remains eliminated despite annual imported cases, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) reported....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/guardian-of-ayia-triada-teacher-eleni-foka-s-silent-resistance-in-occupied-cyprus
For 23 years, teacher Eleni Foka stood as a quiet pillar of resistance in the Turkish-occupied village of Ayia Triada, where she educated the children of those who refused to abandon their homes after the 1974 invasion....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/51-years-on-and-the-picture-s-still-blurry
Fifty-one years after the coup and the invasion. Half a century has passed, and the island remains divided, its northern part still under Turkish occupation, while the landscape changes drastically....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/politics-blog-the-law-commissioner-the-police-chief-and-erdogan
I’m the Law Commissioner, and I’ll call the Chief of Police. That’s what Ms. Louiza Zannetou allegedly said after struggling to blow into the breathalyzer machine, which, as she later explained, was due to asthma. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sirens-sound-for-a-divided-island-marking-the-1974-coup-that-changed-everything
Sirens pierced the morning calm across Cyprus at exactly 8:20 a.m. on Monday, marking 51 years since the July 15, 1974 coup that would change the island forever....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/divine-liturgy-to-be-held-july-16–17-at-chapel-in-cyprus-buffer-zone
A Divine Liturgy will be held on July 16 and 17 at the chapel of Agia Marina, located in the United Nations buffer zone near the occupied beach of Deryneia, local officials said....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/movement-of-cypriots-for-peace-and-solidarity-meets-with-president-ahead-of-conference-in-new-york
A group of Turkish Cypriots has formally accused Turkey of carrying out a systematic population transfer in the northern, Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus, actions they say amount to ethnic cleansing, and is calling on the Republic of Cyprus to take legal action at the International Criminal Court (ICC)....
