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As is said, "The bravest of the gypsies lists his crimes when boasting what a great man he is." Turkish Cypriots sacked Mehmet Ali Talat from the presidency, kicked his party out of government and thus declared a firm "No" in 2009-2010 to officious and treacherous "cross voting" suggestions that aimed at creating a diabolical Cypriot nation as part of an effort to cleanse Turkishness from the i

Some people are unhappy with the "negotiator" pick of new Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Ak?nc?. The president is a social democrat and from the Communal Democracy Party (TDP), while the negotiator is a socialist and from the Republican Turks' Party (CTP), leading some to say that the new president has established a coalition at the presidency from day one.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an sent a congratulatory message to Mustafa Ak?nc?, the winner of the Turkish Cyprus presidential election, prompting renewed optimism for reunification of the island. In his message, Erdo?an indirectly urged the leftist former mayor that ?it was not possible to run after a solution to the Cyprus question at any price.? 

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

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.

Voters in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus went to the polls on April 26 to choose a new president in an election runoff that could speed UN-brokered reunification talks.

The incumbent president, Dervi? Ero?lu, and independent candidate Mustafa Ak?nc? gained the most votes in the first round but both failed to reach the 50 percent benchmark on April 19.

The combined vote of the two leading candidates in April 19's inconclusive first round of voting in the Turkish Cypriot presidential race hardly made up 55 percent of the valid votes. Incumbent Dr. Dervi? Ero?lu came first in the race with 28.2 percent of the vote, while a candidate making a late comeback to politics, Mustafa Ak?nc?, came next with 26.9 percent.

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.

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.