The north’s authorities on Thursday announced their intention to end the practice of “double jeopardy” conscription, in which Turkish Cypriot men in Turkey who are also Turkish citizens were required ...

Turkish authorities in the north of Cyprus will no longer conscript men who have already served in the Turkish armed forces ...

Its military is outnumbered by a better equipped army in its breakaway north, propped up politically and militarily by Turkey ... Cyprus is on a defence footing," he said. The 1974 Turkish ...

Cyprus’ ethnic division occurred in 1974 when Turkey invaded in the wake of a coup, sponsored by the junta then ruling Greece, that aimed to unite the island in the eastern Mediterranean with ...

According to Turkish media reports, K. Kallas’ meetings with Turkish officials are expected to focus on EU-Turkey relations ...

Relations between the U.S. and Cyprus have grown closer in recent years and are closely followed by Turkey, which invaded Cyprus's northern third in 1974 after a brief Greek inspired coup.

Many in Cyprus have drawn parallels between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974, and EU-member Cyprus has followed its peers in adopting sanctions on Moscow.