Turkish Cypriots elect moderate leader in crucial policy switch
Bogdan Hofbauer
Tufan Erhürman was elected on Sunday as the Turkish Cypriot leader, reviving hopes that talks on the reunification of the divided island could resume. The 55-year-old lawyer achieved an unprecedented landslide victory, unseating hard-liner incumbent Ersin Tatar, who was considered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s favorite. Turkey’s 1974 invasion, which came in response to a Greece-backed coup in Cyprus, split the island along ethnic lines, creating a Turkish Cypriot north and a Greek
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