Parliament on Thursday voted into law a bill which allows for the European Union’s visa information system (VIS) to be implemented and operated in Cyprus, bringing the island a step closer to member ...

Reliving Cyprus summers: 200km trek along Green Line. 12h. A quiet Sunday morning, a small three-star hotel in Yermasoyia on the ‘wrong’, ... 380,000 steps) along the Green Line. ...

Monday marks exactly 20 years since the European Union’s Green Line regulation, which regulates the movement of people and goods between Cyprus’ two sides, was adopted. The regulation was ...

Israel is to develop a land surveillance system for Cyprus’s defense establishment to stem the flow of asylum seekers and illegal goods from the Turkish-controlled north of the island, in the ...

Ever since Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960, tension has boiled between Turkish and Greek populations on the Mediterranean island. Violent clashes between the two groups peaked in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The deal prevents a disorderly default by Cyprus, and its exit from the eurozone. It establishes the ...

On a map at Haymarket Station, the Green Line Extension was drawn on in green marker. The out-of-date maps are frustrating to riders who see the maps as "low-hanging fruit" on the MBTA's list of ...

Sir, – Intellectual promoters or those with agenda can be wearisome, as in the commentary regarding the Cyprus Green Line by your recent correspondents. To relate the facts surrounding the act ...

Peacekeepers last week in the Green Line between the internationally recognized south of Cyprus and the Turkish-occupied north. Nearly 30 asylum seekers are stranded in the zone.

1959: Makarios maps his vision for Cyprus' future 1994 - European Court of Justice rules that a list of goods, ... 2003 April - Turkish and Greek Cypriots cross island's dividing "green line" for ...

Known as the 'Green Line' since a UN general marked it on a map in green pencil - the zone was extended in 1974 after Turkish forces invaded in response to a Greek-backed military coup.

The island of Cyprus has been divided along the 180km green line since 1974, when Turkish forces occupied the north of the country in response to a Greece-backed coup that aimed to unify the two ...