Fact-Check

CIReN delves into one of the most pressing issues concerning environmental protection and public health.It fact-checks the government narrative around the recent European Commission’s decision to refer Cyprus to the Court of Justice of the EU over the improper closure and waste management at the Vati and Kotsiatis illegal landfills. 

Kyriakos Pierides
24.05.2025
Government Rhetoric on Kotsiatis and Vati is Misleading
Feature

The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has handed down a landmark ruling to end the selling of “golden passports”, the practice of member states such as Malta and Cyprus that have turned European citizenship into a commercial transaction.

Kyriakos Pieridis
3.05.2025
Game Over for ‘Golden Passport’ Sales
News

Cyprus slips 12 places in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index by RSF. Cyprus now ranks 77th among 180 countries. Legislative attempts by the government that would undermine press freedom are causing concern. Turkey’s increasing pressure on the media and growing concentration in the hands of businessmen undermine press freedom in the north.

Esra Aygin
2.05.2025
Cyprus Slips 12 Places in World Press Freedom Index 
Feature

Journalists and experts have sounded the alarm over draft legislation in Cyprus that would allow for court-ordered surveillance of journalists and their acquaintances in an attempt to uncover their sources.

Kyriakos Pieridis
17.04.2025
Cyprus Seeks to Legalise Spying on Journalists
Investigation

An investigation into leaked data exposes scam call centers whose employees convinced thousands of people to make “investments” on fake trading platforms. A call center in Cyprus was part of an operation based in Israel that appears to have targeted 26,810 individuals around the world.

Andreas Cosma, Christodoulos Mavroudis, Kyriakos Pieridis and Begoña P. Ramírez (InfoLibre)
5.03.2025
Scam Empire: Cyprus Served as a Hub in Alleged Fraud Ring
Investigation

The OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) team of journalists has uncovered details about the multi-million-dollar betting business of Turkish businessman Halil Falyalı. Falyalı’s former CFO Cemil […]

Edik Baghdasaryan (Hetq)
21.02.2025
Vigen Badalyan’s Turkish “Gambit”

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The Cyprus Investigative Reporting Network (CIReN) is an independent non profit investigative media platform committed to the highest professional and ethical standards of quality journalism in the public interest.

CIReN provides support to professional journalists across Cyprus seeking an independent platform to pursue and publish work that exposes social, financial, environmental, political and institutional wrongdoing. Their stories appear here in English, Greek and Turkish, and where possible are translated in all three languages to reach the widest possible audience in Cyprus.

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