Presidential Elections of 18 April 2010 (Votes) Total Nicosia Famagusta Kyrenia Morfou Trikomo Registered 164072 51381 43004 31233 21214 17240 Voted 125294 39055 33293 23298 16371 13277 Abstention 38904 12309 9712 7970 4950 3963 Valid 121982 38295 32288 22822 15766 12811 Invalid 3312 760 1005 476 605 466 Derviş Eroğlu 61422 16836 17109 [...]
Presidential Elections of 17 April 2005 (Votes) Total Nicosia Famagusta Kyrenia Morfou Trikomo Registered 147823 46550 38885 27251 19885 15252 Voted 102853 32343 27503 18238 14312 10457 Valid 100632 31639 26936 17869 13945 10243 Invalid 2221 704 567 369 367 214 Mehmet Ali Talat 55945 18303 14651 10270 8202 4519 Derviş Eroğlu 22874 [...]
After decades of dominance in the political life of the Turkish Cypriot community, Rauf Denktaş announced that he would not run for re-election in 2005. The post-Denktaş era was already a reality. The road had been paved more than two years earlier, since the final weeks of 2002. The power of the Turkish Cypriot [...]
Cyprus has lived in freedom only since 1960, following long centuries of foreign domination. The island’s geopolitical value has turned it into a target of regional and remote powers that succeeded one another as its masters. Some glimpses of political life emerged at the beginning of the British rule (1878-1960). However, the design of institutions [...]
