Veteran leftwinger Tufan Erhürman wins after campaign on reviving stalled talks to reunify island
Turkish Cypriots have handed the pro-European leftwing leader Tufan Erhürman a resounding victory in a presidential poll likely to inject renewed vigour into the deadlocked peace process on Cyprus.
Erhürman, 55, who campaigned on reviving stalled UN-brokered talks to reunify the island, defeated the incumbent nationalist, Ersin Tatar, by more than 30 percentage points – a landslide win that surprised even his most ardent supporters.
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