ESRA AYGIN

News, interviews and opinions on Cyprus peace process

Monday, 20 May 2024

Clampdown on foreign property buyers in the north

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 May 19, 2024 There are fears the new regulations may cause more ghost towns with unfinished buildings But an exception is made if the buyer...

Increasing tolerance of corruption in the north

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 April 29, 2024 In 140th position on the corruption perception index along with Cameroon Turkish Cypriots took the streets on Friday in a ma...

The worst economic crisis in Turkish Cypriot history

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 April 14, 2024 We have lost hope in this country, shopkeepers say The annual inflation rate in the northern part of Cyprus hit 94.5 per cen...

A ‘love of loneliness’ marks demands for two-state solution in Cyprus

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 March 31, 2024 Ozdil Nami As the United Nations secretary-general’s personal envoy wrestles to break the seven-year standstill in the Cypru...

North a safe haven for criminals

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 March 17, 2024 Australian underworld boss Mark Douglas Buddle ‘North Cyprus can easily be a safe shelter for those wanted by Interpol or in...
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Esra Aygin
Esra Aygin is a freelance journalist, who extensively covers Cyprus, its politics, people, peace negotiations and reconciliation process. She has a BS in Journalism and Mass Communications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, New York. She started her career in Istanbul in 2000 at the news channel CNBC-e – a partnership between Turkish NTV and American NBC. She covered the Annan Plan period in Cyprus for the world’s biggest news agency, the Associated Press. She had many first-page stories published in leading newspapers such as the International Herald Tribune and Washington Post. She also worked for the American financial media company Bloomberg. In Cyprus, combining her journalism with peace activism, she played a central role in the first corporate media partnership between a Turkish Cypriot and a Greek Cypriot newspaper. Esra co-authored a glossary of offensive phrases used by the media in Cyprus to encourage sensitive reporting under OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. A fictive report she wrote sparked the peace movement UniteCyprusNow. Esra is the winner of Turkish Cypriot Journalists Union's Peace Journalism Award.
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