- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✔ Legal
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Military✖ Illegal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Donating Blood✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
History
Current status
(since May 21, 1998)
(since May 21, 1998)
Legal
Homosexuality legalised following the European Court of Human Rights case of Modinos v. Cyprus.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2014)
(since Jan 1, 2014)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Sexual orientation only in Northern Cyprus.
Current status
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Discrimination in all cases are illegal
Current status
(since Jul 11, 2002)
(since Jul 11, 2002)
Equal
Equalised age of consent at 16.
Current status
Not banned
Conversion therapy ban pending. Fined though.
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Alternative names: Kýpros/Kibris (local name)
