South Bans Turkish Airline Euro 2016 TV Adverts

South Bans Turkish Airline Euro 2016 TV Adverts

Sports journalist Georgios Kyprianou said that the South’s Foreign Ministry has decided to block Turkish Airlines adverts when they are shown during the Euro 2016 games. He said that there was no chance of Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC), partly owned by the South’s government, having to pay any compensation when they did so.

Lefkosia Does Not Want Expensive Turkish Water

Lefkosia Does Not Want Expensive Turkish Water

The Halkin Sesi newspaper (09.06.16) reported that the city council of the Lefkosia Turkish municipality had rejected using water transferred from Turkey. Rather than rejecting it for the sensible reason that supply from Turkey could not be relied upon, the city council rejected being involved in the water distribution project because the Turkish water […]

President Anastasiades Refuses Dinner With President Akinci

President Anastasiades Refuses Dinner With President Akinci

South Cyprus’s president Nicos Anastasiades refused to attend an official dinner hosted by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan after he discovered that the north’s President Mustafa Akinci was invited.

Aparently Anastasiades said “Have a nice dinner, I’m not coming” when a U.N. envoy telephoned him to say Akinci had been invited to the heads of […]