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Cyprus before the European Court over a Colonial-era Law: Female dancers & singers at weddings are treated as…prostitutes

A father's attempt to organize his daughter's wedding has turned into an international legal dispute, with the Cypriot government now defending itself before the European Court of Human Rights

Turkey rejects European Parliament resolution on Cyprus, calls it “invalid and baseless”

Ankara accuses the EU of a “biased stance” on the Cyprus issue and defends the Turkish armed forces, voices full backing for the breakaway north and accuses Brussels of drifting away from historical impartiality

Message from Nicosia to Ankara: without progress on the Cyprus issue, the path to the EU will not open for Turkey

Progress in EU-Turkey relations remains directly tied to progress on the Cyprus issue - that is the message Nicosia has sent to Ankara, after last night's dinner between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President António Costa, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

The European Parliament recognized, for the first time, the women & girls of Cyprus as victims of the crimes committed during the 1974 Turkish invasion

An issue that remained in the shadows for more than fifty years

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