 Civil Registry and Migration Department announced in 2011 that the Ministry of Interior was at that time looking at introducing a new type of card to replace the troublesome non-national Cyprus ID card.It will be called a residence card and will look similar to an ID card

ID Cards of North Cyprus are issued to citizens of self-titled Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, which is recognized only by Republic of Turkey.Citizens of Northern Cyprus are persons granted citizenship by the Government of Northern Cyprus, which was established as a result of occupation of Cyprus by Turkey in 1974, the cause of which had divided the Greek and Turkish communities of the island dating to the year of 1963.