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 [...]
The Democratic Party (DIKO) was founded by Spyros Kyprianou, in 1976, under the name Democratic Front (DIPA). Kyprianou served as foreign minister in the Makarios government from August 1960 to June 1972, when he was fired at the behest of the Greek dictator Georges Papadopoulos. He returned to politics after the events of summer 1974, [...]
The case of EDEK is of particular interest for a variety of reasons, including its ideological orientations, its relations with forces outside Cyprus, the ideological composition of its leadership and its voters. Doctor Vassos Lyssarides, the personal physician of the Archbishop and President Makarios founded the party, which took its name with reference to the [...]
