Explorer Robert Sarmast is returning to Cyprus today to film a television programme. In 2004 Sarmast claimed to have found the legendary city of Atlantis, saying that by using sonar scans he was able to find man-made walls that matched Plato’s description of the structures. He said the site ...

The Turkish general election has become known as the campaign of Sex, Lies and Videotape. The reaction to the release on the Internet of explicit sex videos appearing to implicate senior members of the National Action Party has been greeted with shock and anger. Last month’s release on the Internet ...

του Ανδρέα Πενταρά* Βασική αρχή στην άσκηση οποιασδήποτε στρατηγικής είναι να υπάρχει αρμονία μεταξύ στόχων και μέσων. Θα πρέπει δηλαδή οι στόχοι που τίθενται να είναι ...

Sixty-nine percent of Turks support Turkey’s European Union membership, although relations with the EU are stagnant, and Turks regard relations with the EU as the country’s most important foreign policy issue, according to a recent survey. The survey “Foreign Policy Perceptions in Turkey,” ...

It is with great pleasure and honour that I address this very important conference and its distinguished audience. I would thus like to sincerely thank the organisers for inviting me to speak at such a notable event, taking place near the historic city-state of Greece, named after the ancient Greek ...

A TURKISH Cypriot football team has threatened to apply for membership of the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) if the football authorities in the north don’t lift a 13-match ban on the team for crowd trouble. Currently there are no Turkish Cypriot teams in CFA, but Lefke Football Club says it will ...

THE CHAIRMAN of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Giorgos Charalambous expressed his displeasure over the leaking of information about the impending downgrade by the Fitch ratings agency, which was eventually announced yesterday. The rumours had caused heavy losses to banking shares last ...

OVER 8,000 people have been reported for violating smoking laws from the start of 2010 until last April, Police Spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said yesterday. Presenting the figures to mark World No Tobacco Day, Katsounotos said the police had carried out 62,265 inspections on closed establishments ...