Turkish Cypriots

Sunday?s presidential elections in northern Cyprus will usher the island into a new and challenging phase.

Mustafa Akinci, who won a run-off for the Turkish Cypriot leadership on Sunday, is a veteran politician seen as best placed to revive peace talks with the Republic of Cyprus.

A leftist moderate promising to press for a peace deal in ethnically-split Cyprus swept to victory in the presidential election run-off in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on April 26.

A leftist moderate promising to press for a peace deal in ethnically-split Cyprus swept to victory in the presidential election run-off in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on April 26.

By Nikos Konstandaras

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that the division of Cyprus was begging for an international solution and progress in peace talks was possible this year.

Speaking before a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu at the State Department, Kerry said the dispute over ethnically split Cyprus had gone on for too long.

Incumbent Dervi? Ero?lu will face off against independent Mustafa Ak?nc? in a second round of voting for the Turkish Cypriot leadership after a close first round, official figures showed April 19.
  
Turkish Cypriots are voting for a leader who will head peace talks with the Greek Cypriots on the divided east Mediterranean island.
  

Some 177,000 Turkish Cypriots went to the polling booths April 19 to vote to elect a president that would lead the tiny Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in talks with Greek Cypriots, expected to resume next month, to achieve a federal resolution.

Voters in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) went to the polls on April 19 to elect their new leader from seven candidates including incumbent Dervis Eroglu.

The citizens of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus will vote in a presidential election on April 19, with an atmosphere of returning to the bargaining table developing on both the Turkish and Greek sides of the divided island.