North Cyprus’s 50-mile panhandle is an absolute must-see: a time-warp region of crumbling churches, rustic villages and wild coastline. The easternmost third is a national park roamed by wild ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Work carried out jointly by Greek and Turkish Cypriots to restore an Orthodox Christian monastery is being hailed as a symbolic milestone for unity and peace on the ethnically ...

Out towards the east coast things get easier as there is only one road, which comes to a sandy end halfway along the Karpas peninsula, a place with no electricity but plenty of rare turtles, plus ...

“April of 1970 in the Karpas peninsula was unforgettable: ... And in The Cyprus I Knew our past is, once more, achingly alive. The Cyprus I Knew is published by En Tipis Publications.

Mail on Sunday's Giles Milton heads to North Cyprus to explore the deserted villages, abandoned Greek monasteries and miles of pristine beaches that make up the Karpas Peninsula.

Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot parties said Wednesday that the environmentally sensitive Karpas peninsula should not be used for military purposes and expressed concern over the stalemate in ...

Turkish troops intervened on Cyprus in 1974, in response to a military coup by Greek Cypriot officers who sought union with Greece. ... But there is not much humanity on display at the church of ...

The Karpas peninsula – the “panhandle” of the north-eastern tip of Cyprus – is a 43-mile sliver of dazzling, untouched coastline with waves pounding the cliffs on one side, dune-buttressed ...

The Karpas peninsula is a wilderness of stony red earth, with scrubby hillsides of grey boulders and a coastline dotted with the ruins of early Christian churches. Large flocks of sheep are ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's state-run news agency says a second Turkish ship has started drilling for gas off ethnically divided Cyprus, in an area where the Cypriot government says ...

Turkey's second drill ship Yavuz will operate in a borehole near Cyprus' Karpas peninsula, to the northeast of the island, for around three months and reach a depth of 3,300 metres (3,609 yards ...

Situated on the northeastern tip of the Karpas peninsula in Cyprus' breakaway Turkish Cypriot north, the monastery is dedicated to one of Jesus' first disciples, St. Andrew, and has long been ...