Northern Cyprus Presidential Elections

Hard-liner Dervis Eroglu of the right-wing National Unity Party, or UBP, was elected the new president of Northern Cyprus after a heated election race on Sunday. Eroglu garnered 50.38 percent of the vote in the seven candidate election, while independent pro-reunification incumbent President Mehmet Ali Talat trailed behind with 42.85 percent, according to unofficial results. Tahsin Ertuguloglu, a third candidate who defected from Eroglu's UBP with encouragement from Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, received 3.81 percent of the votes cast.

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