https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/new-turkey-s-hasty-birth
The way in which the snap elections were called is not normal, nor is the unsettled situation in the country and on its borders...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-fledgling-party-to-run-in-june-polls-after-membership-boost
A masterful campaigner, Erdogan has won nearly a dozen elections and dominated Turkey since his Islamist-rooted AK party swept to power in 2002...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/french-arch-stretching-from-the-aegean-to-cyprus
There is growing evidence of a broader French plan to support Cyprus in the region but also to strengthen Greece as it tries to manage the geopolitical challenges that have accumulated in the East Med and will intensify...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-searching-for-clues-in-brutal-double-murder-case
Crime investigators in Nicosia believe they are getting closer to cracking the Strovolos double murder case wide open, despite coming away empty handed during a search in the perimeter of the home and sharing little information with the media. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-says-enemies-see-greece-as-safe-haven
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement accusing Athens of “protecting the coup plotters”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/kammenos-to-be-summoned-over-botched-saudi-arms-sale
Leftist deputies on Thursday blocked another request from New Democracy and other opposition parties for government ministers and other officials to appear before Parliament’s Institutions and Transparency Committee to respond to questions about the botched sale of ammunition to Saudi Arabia....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greek-court-releases-turkish-officer-under-tight-security
The serviceman, who piloted the military helicopter which brought the eight officers to Greece a day after the botched coup, had been granted protection by an asylum appeals committee in December...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-couple-murdered-in-front-of-their-son
The autopsy of the Strovolos couple in Nicosia who were murdered in their own home Thursday has revealed the 60-year-old man and his 59-year-old wife were savagely stabbed multiple times and went into hemorrhagic shock....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/leaders-uncommitted-after-dinner-date
There was no breakthrough apart from the leaders not excluding any new moves from the UN...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/beer-lovers-can-toast-prince-harry-and-meghan-s-wedding-with-new-brew
It is a sequel to the “Windsor Knot” beer the brewery first made in 2011 to mark the wedding of Prince William, Harry’s elder brother, to wife Kate...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-leaders-to-sound-each-other-out
The two Cypriot leaders are set to meet Monday evening in the buffer zone, with the two men being nowhere near a common agenda and the UN hoping at best for more meetings to follow....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/celebrating-israel-s-70th-independence-day-in-cyprus
The significant natural gas reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean offer much potential for joint ventures and commercial growth...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-and-greece-ratchet-up-tension-in-the-mediterranean
With help from rabble-rousers on both sides, disputes over airspace and maritime borders, which have poisoned relations between Greece and Turkey for decades...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/yildirim-calls-tsipras-to-express-condolences-for-mirage-pilot
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke with Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim who called to express his condolences and those of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the death of the Greek fighter jet pilot whose plane crashed into the sea in the central Aegean earlier on Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/terrorist-security-challenge-for-harry-and-meghan-s-wedding
Barriers to stop vehicle attacks, armed patrols, and airport-style security will be among the measures employed in largest police operation Windsor has ever seen...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/yildirim-dig-at-tsipras-over-8-turkish-servicemen-in-greece
Turkish government spokesman Bekir Bozdag stated outright that the cases of the eight Turks and two Greeks are unrelated...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/week-starts-off-with-rain-and-thunder
Wet and cloudy weather is setting in on Monday, just after an uneventful Easter Sunday, and it won’t get better for another couple of days. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-seeks-to-overcome-regional-tension-for-peace
Rival Cypriot leaders will meet for dinner on April 16 in an effort by the United Nations to reignite a stalled peace process...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/winnie-mandela-tainted-anti-apartheid-leader-dies-at-81
She died peacefully surrounded by her family following a long illness that kept her in and out of hospital since the start of the year...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/president-erdogan-s-exasperation
His aim, in this case, is to exert pressure on the Greek government for the extradition of the eight...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-leaders-to-have-informal-meeting-at-dinner
It will be the first time Anastasiades and Akinci have met since the collapse of peace talks in Switzerland...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/speed-camera-plans-move-forward
Just as plans for speed cameras seemed to be going nowhere, an official meeting last week gave the go ahead for the tender process to begin within the next few months. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/famagusta-mayor-pushing-for-return-of-town
Famagusta Mayor Alexis Galanos receives reassurances by MEP Kati Piri that a call for the return of the town will be part of her annual report, due out later this year....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/taxi-drivers-call-off-strike-at-larnaca-airport
The taxi drivers strike at Larnaca airport is being suspended hours after it was launched, following an attack incident and an invitation by the transport minister to meet representatives Thursday afternoon. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/authorities-scramble-after-elena-s-shocking-death
The death of 29-year-old Elena Frantzi has distressed Cyprus society, with authorities and the media scrambling to respond to public outrage over her stepfather priest who went to prison for sexually molesting her. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/greece-and-trump-s-new-foreign-policy-team
it is imperative that Athens establish channels of communication with the new powerful officials as regards American foreign policy...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-dust-rules-for-schools
High dust levels are expected to drop as rain sets in, but schools are not taking a chance on their students and are taking measures against outdoor exposure. Meanwhile, cooler and rainy weather is expected to clear the atmosphere while temperatures will rise again by Friday. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-membership-remains-strategic-goal-for-ankara
The EU largely depends on Turkey to curtail the flow of migrants into Europe...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-leaders-host-turkish-president-erdogan-for-uneasy-summit
Erdogan will seek more money for Syrian refugees, a deeper customs union and progress on letting Turks visit Europe without visas...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/corbyn-apologises-for-anti-semitism-in-his-party
Corbyn himself was criticised last week for a comment made in 2012 showing solidarity with the creator of a mural deemed by many to be anti-Semitic...
