Bank ‘robbers’ – see NCFP article Kissing off limits battle with swine flu – no kissing, shaking hand or hugging until March according to the Health Minister Petition launched to stop barking dogs – Cenap Turgat’s dogs are keeping Alsancak neighbours awake Hellim victory – the patent for the cheese has been registered in Turkey by TRNC... »
In June 2005 a property development company named NCP (North Cyprus Properties Ltd) had finished building homes in Olive Grove, Esentepe, TRNC. The homes were paid for, the keys handed over and the people moved in. On 28th August 2005 the developer borrowed £500k sterling and 1,200k lira from KOOP Central bank. The bank took... »
The British left Cyprus some years back and the new generations which have grown up over the last 35-40 years now have to take responsibility! It’s easy to blame foreign influence – but the truth is that for the last 4 decades the TC’s have had control over their destiny! Though it is easy... »
More information has been released since NCFP first published an article concerning the banning of Gibrizlija, the Turkish Cypriot dialect, by the Higher Broadcasting Council (HBC). It appears that BRT and Genc TV for example have been increasing the number of programmes broadcast in the dialect and this may be a trend that has... »
Having just read two articles in the London Turkish Gazette (Londra Gazete) and having recently talked to Turks in mainland Turkey I was beginning to get the impression that Turkish Cypriots living in Cyprus had a bad image. The Londra Gazete articles written by London Turkish Cypriot Suzan Nuri were rather scathing of not... »
It has come to our attention from three different sources over the past 48 hours (both by phone and e-mail) that the North Cyprus Government are to make some advance toward the subject of the assets of AGA Development. We have been led to believe the announcement involves Kutsel, & Tahir, amongst others.... »
Just returned last night after a week’s holiday in Antalya so missed two reviews of “in Cyprus Today”. Mass shutdown in general strike – government and municipality offices, routine hospital services, ports and banks are due to close as 28 unions protest against an alleged 30-35% cut in public servant wages in order to align... »
Looking at the overall pattern it seems that for every 100 people who have bought property here: 39 – have title deeds 30 – have been waiting 0-3 years for their deeds 31 – have been waiting 4 or more years Another way of looking at this is that around 61% of people have fully paid for a... »
During a bit of “spring” cleaning in preparation for the relatively dust free winter I disturbed some of the spiders that inhabit our villa. I’m not particularly scared of spiders but one of them looked remarkably like a Tarantula. A little bit of research confirmed this but my worries soon faded when I discovered... »
London based human rights group Embargoed!, attending their third consecutive OCSE HDIM Human Rights Conference in Warsaw, used the occasion to highlight the offensive banners displayed by Apoel supporters during last week’s UEFA Champions League match against Chelsea. The group addressed diplomats from 55 countries that included the USA, Russia, Turkey and all EU... »
