Gul sees Cyprus settlement by end of next year

2003-05-31

By a Staff Reporter

TURKISH Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said yesterday he believed a settlement in Cyprus was possible by the end of next year, when Turkey hopes to launch its European Union accession talks.

The EU is prepared to admit a divided Cyprus next May if a deal with Turkish Cypriots to end the island’s division cannot be reached.

We don’t need any more helicopters, government insists

2003-05-31

By a Staff Reporter

IN THE latest twist on the procurement of helicopters for the military and the police, the government confirmed yesterday it was scrapping the tenders process and initiating another one “no later than 12 months from now”.

Mitsotakis lashes out at Papadolpoulos ‘inexperience’

2003-05-31

By a Staff Reporter

THE HONORARY President of Greece’s right-wing Nea Dimocratia, Constantinos Mitsotakis, yesterday blasted President Tassos Papadopoulos for being “the first Cypriot President to meddle with Greek domestic politics.”

Mitsotakis was commenting on the President’s participation at a Socialist Party (PASOK) meeting in Athens on Tuesday.

More frogs to feed endangered water snakes

2003-05-31

By Alexia Saoulli

THE FISHERIES department said yesterday it planned to construct small ponds around a Nicosia district dam in order to provide an endangered water snake with its predominant food source of frogs.

Judge blasts police over detention of asylum seekers

2003-05-30

By Alex Mita

A NICOSIA District Judge yesterday rejected a police request for the eight-day remand of 20 foreign men seeking political asylum and blasted the force for not complying with the asylum law.

The men, 11 Turks, three Palestinians, three Syrians and one Pakistani presented themselves at the Paphos Gate police station on Tuesday seeking political asylum.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.