Ottoman Cyprus

Yesterday in Cyprus, the burial of another eight fallen soldiers from 1974 took place

A Greek spy watching and photographing the military bases on the Turkish Cypriot's Karpas Peninsula has been caught as he had forgotten his radio in his hotel room.

Local controversy is growing over the Archbishop's decision to turn a famous folk house museum in old Nicosia into a church museum for next year's bicentennial celebrations of the Greek Revolution.

Turkey's second drill ship Yavuz will operate in a borehole near Cyprus' Karpas peninsula, to the northeast of the island, for around three months and reach a depth of 3,300 metres (3,609 yards), Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Thursday.

The French Air Force continued its flights in the Nicosia FIR on Turesday. The aeronautical exercise of the French Navy and Air Force, which began last week and will continue until Wednesday, is according to Kathimerini part of the Cyprus-France military cooperation.

The communications minister of Cyprus says a rare 6th-century portrait mosaic of St. Mark which was looted from an Orthodox Christian church more than four decades ago has returned intact to the Mediterranean island nation.

An Egyptian man who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight in 2016 and ordered it to land in Cyprus has been extradited to his homeland after giving up a drawn-out legal fight, authorities said Sunday.

Buscovite pensioner Svetlana Bogomilova emerges from a Russian grocery store into the Mediterranean sunshine near the Limassol beachfront in Greek Cyprus.

Tomorrow the Greek people will vote for their future government. But, whoever ends up moving into Maximos Mansion, the official residence of Greek prime Ministers, will not be running the country, as Guardian warns.

NICOSIA – Cyprus will grant its first license for a casino resort within about a year, the government said on Friday, to be built in the south of the island where gambling has been strictly prohibited. Scores of Greek Cypriots regularly cross into the north of Cyprus, a breakaway Turkish Cypriot state recognized only by Ankara and where there are several casinos.