Even though Derviş Eroğlu, who is currently expected to be the new north Cyprus President, has said that talks will continue after the Presidential elections in April, the talks are now expected to fail. At the very least, according to south Cyprus opposition leader, Nicos Anastassiades, “they would not be as helpful as we... »
It is an unusual situation where people such as the Orams are being pursued for occupying GC property and yet very little is being said about the TCs who originally owned the property. When you think about it, for every Brit who now occupies a GC property there was at least one TC who... »
North Cyprus President Mehmet Ali Talat, says that he is concerned that the current round of talks will not be completed before the Presidential elections in the north. He has made it clear that if the talks are not completed before the elections then he will not be standing as a candidate. North Cyprus... »
“a plan is afoot in the next few months and left to understood by various directions that the plan will be worse than Annan Plan which rightly the Greek Cypriots rejected.” The Archbishop went on to warn that “Turkey is trying to legitimize its illegal plans for Cyprus and uses the talks to deceit... »
A month after upgrading their system, Cyprus44 forum is down again. This time the evidence points to missing files rather than a DDoS attack. An attempt to determine what had happened to the site resulted in an error message that there were no files on the server. There are other explanations for this error... »
Although the problem was not as serious as those experienced in the UK, two flights were cancelled, one flight was diverted to Beirut and the rest were diverted to Paphos airport. The problem was caused by a problem with the runway lights which Hermes spokesman, Adamos Aspris, said had been fixed overnight. Passengers from the... »
North Cyprus Free Press will be taking a holiday until after Christmas unless there is important breaking news. For those of you who are spending Yuletide in north Cyprus, enjoy yourselves but remember, there are some unfortunates in the UK who can’t sunbathe on the 25th! number of views: 41 »
An earthquake eh? It was at 35.6192 N – 31.4507E, that’s about 65miles south east of Antalya. Tsunami on the way or haven’t they managed to organize that at such short notice? The magnitude is reported at 5.4 and happened at 08:06:20 on 22.12.09. Needless to say, not a hint... »
When I first stumbled upon a bird trapper whilst walking my dog, at first I wasn’t sure what was going on. It wasn’t until a conversation later that I realised that he’d been out to catch songbirds, including our favourite Christmas bird the robin. His furtiveness should have told me that he was up... »
Well, the weather forecasters warned of it for days and as usual, when it actually happened, no one seemed to be prepared. In Poland, with temperatures as low as -16ºC and a snow depth of a foot or more, Warsaw airport is open and operating normally. Back in the UK, every airport is either... »
