Cyprus

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an will visit Turkish Cyprus on July 20 to attend the 41st anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. 

European Commission's President Jean Claude Juncker will be visiting Cyprus over the next two days.

Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Ak?nc? has approved a new coalition government cabinet under Prime Minister Ömer Kalyoncu.

The move comes after former Prime Minister Ozkan Yorganc?o?lu stepped down on July 4 after losing a party leadership vote in June.

Two missiles fell from a warplane at a British base in southern Cyprus on July 15 as the aircraft returned from a military operation, without causing casualties, base officials said.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is to start his first official visit to Greek Cyprus on July 16 for talks on the bailed-out island's economy and the UN-brokered peace process.

After a record-breaking 17 hours of talks, European Council President Donald Tusk reconvened the Euro Summit from a break with a “revised compromise proposal” on the table. Tusk announced a unanimous agreement for Greece that will be signed at around 7 p.m. on Monday.

Another form of “Finlandization” has apparently plagued the Eurozone over the weekend and is now viewed as the main obstacle towards achieving a new bailout deal with crisis-stricken Greece, one that would avert the east Mediterranean country’s euro membership meltdown.

?Turkey?s foremost priority, as a European country, is to continue its relations with the EU, being well aware that it is a great European state. Turkey will find its place in that world.? 

These words were uttered by a high level official in Ankara who I had a conversation with last week.

Rival Cypriot leaders said after negotiations on July 10 that any UN-brokered peace settlement for their divided island would be based on European Union principles.

Two former military personnel have been sentenced to life in prison for torturing to death U?ur Kantar, a Turkish solider who died after being tortured in a disciplinary room while he was doing his military service in the northern Cyprus in 2011.