Greek Cypriots

Turkey will begin drilling for resources around Cyprus, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday, a move that could create tensions with neighboring Cyprus and Greece over ownership of natural resources.

Attempts to tap gas and oil in the eastern Mediterranean have caused friction between Athens and Ankara.

Members of New York's Cypriot and Jewish communities organized a cultural celebration with their traditional food, wines, dancing and music at the Pancyprian Center/Dionysos Restaurant on January 15.

Greek Cypriots have lost a case to register the production method and brand name of the "halloumi" cheese because of a late plea in a U.K court, which angered the opposition and sparked a political crisis in the Greek administration.

A Turkish Cypriot girl in traditional dress gives gifts to a Greek Cypriot as he drives through the newly opened checkpoint linking the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities in Lefka-Aplici, Monday.

The president of Cyprus took to the airwaves on Tuesday to defend his proposal for a more decentralized federal government he contended would function better if a reunification deal is reached with the ethnically divided nation's breakaway Turkish Cypriots.

Turkey on Thursday reacted angrily to a decision by the government of Cyprus to invite companies to bid on a new energy exploration zone off the island's coast, known as block 7.

A father and son who were arrested in northern Cyprus on Saturday have been released from custody after being fined 215 euros each for illegally crossing into a military zone.

Turkish Cypriot officials are probing 15 Greek Cypriots whose names were found in the notebook of a self-confessed spy. 

Smugglers attempted to use a drone to fly illegal drugs over the frontier separating Turkish-occupied Cyprus with the rest of the island, one of the most heavily guarded areas in Europe, Turkish Cypriot media reported.

London, 1990. Six-year old Skevi, of Cypriot background, was late for class at her Greek community school, which left her unable to find somewhere to sit.

She asked for a "chaera" (meaning "chair" in Cypriot). The teacher knew what a "chaera" was, but refused to help Skevi and left her standing by the classroom door.