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Actions that hinder the building of trust, including event cancellations, counteract efforts to create a favorable climate regarding the Cypriot issue, states the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, in a reply letter to the Turkish Cypriot leader, Tufan Erhiyeriman, according to reports from the occupied territories. #Κυπριακό #Εμπιστοσύνη #Γκουτέρες (translated)

The first "penalty" of imprisonment in the occupied areas for hate speech against LGBTQ+ was welcomed as significant by the TC association Queer Cyprus, which emphasized the need for quick and effective legal protection against hate crimes. #ΛΟΑΤΚΙ #ΡητορικήΜίσους #Δικαιώματα (translated)

The illegal Turkish military exercise "Mediterranean Storm 2026" began today in the occupied territories and will last until October 16, with the participation of land, naval, and air forces from Turkey and the occupying military forces. #Κυπριακό #ΤουρκικήΆσκηση #ΜεσογειακήΚαταιγίδα2026 (translated)

Amalia accused Russia of deliberately launching attacks against civilians in Ukraine, citing strikes on apartment buildings, schools, shopping centers, public transport, playgrounds, and bridges. She argued that most of the victims were Russian-speaking individuals in Eastern Ukraine and criticized those who, as she wrote, showed sensitivity towards Palestine and Iran in Greece, but not towards Ukrainians. Regarding the recent strikes, she mentioned that in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, 22 civilians were killed, including 5 children—three of them one year old—and 54 were injured. For Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast, she wrote that two city buses were attacked and 33 people were killed, while the number of injured remained unknown. She added that 9 people were also killed in Kyiv, 2 in Kremenchuk, 2 in Konotop, 2 in Oleksandriia, and 1 in Zaporizhzhia, raising the death toll of civilian casualties over the two days to 71, according to her. Regarding the negotiations with U.S. intervention, Amalia claimed that Zelensky was accepting a ceasefire with the troops in their current positions and was asking for guarantees from the West. She stated that pro-Russian separatist forces controlled 60% of Donetsk Oblast before the Russian invasion of 2022, that since then the Russian army had captured an additional 20%, and that it had not managed to capture the remaining 20%. She asserted that Putin did not want a ceasefire, but a peace agreement that would require Zelensky to go to Moscow, the demilitarization of Ukraine, a constitutional commitment not to seek EU or NATO membership, and the recognition of the territories occupied by Russia since 2014, including Crimea. She added that Russia was also demanding the surrender of the remaining 20% of Donetsk Oblast that it had not captured. Amalia compared the situation to Cyprus, where, as she wrote, since August 1974 a ceasefire had been in effect under UN supervision, without a permanent peace agreement, because Turkey demanded recognition of the loss of territories and the pseudostate. She concluded that Russia sought, in her view, the humiliation of Ukraine and not peace. #Ουκρανία #Ειρήνη #Πόλεμος (translated)

Leonidas Vatikiotis described the Nobel awarded to Pillay as a strong blow to Israel, which he accused of genocide. He mentioned that Pillay was the head of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and that, in a report from September 2025, she accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. #Ισραήλ #Παλαιστίνη #Νόμπελ (translated)

The Turkish research vessel Oruc Reis is conducting surveys off the coast of occupied Kyrenia for the design of a natural gas pipeline that will connect Turkey to the occupied territories, with the aim of completing the studies by 2026 and operating it by 2028. #Κυπριακό #ΦυσικόΑέριο #Αγωγός (translated)

The Plenary of the Supreme Constitutional Court unanimously ruled that the amendment law of 2026 is unconstitutional, as it violates the separation of powers and the articles of the Constitution, particularly in relation to the annulment of documents of judicial decisions concerning the seizure of debtor's property in the occupied territories. #Ανώτατο #Αντισυνταγματικότητα #Κύπρος (translated)

Turkey issued a new NAVTEX for the research of the research vessel Oruc Reis in the maritime area from Antalya and Mersin to the south of Cyprus, as part of plans to construct a submarine natural gas pipeline to the occupied territories. #OrucReis #NAVTEX #φυσικόαέριο (translated)