The main feature that distinguished the 2025 election from that of 2020 was not just the number of candidates, but mainly the expected appeal of each one of them. Out of eight candidates in the 2025 contest, only two, the incumbent Ersin Tatar and Tufan Erhürman, leader of the Republican Turkish Party (Cumhuriyetçi Türk [...]
Trends and prospects for the election of the Turkish Cypriot leader We proceeded with a grouping of communities and Nicosia /Famagusta town-quarters according to the number of registered voters. We have four groups (arbitrary defined): Size over 2000 registered voters. This is 27 communities /quarters totalling 96195 voters or 48.35% of the electoral body. From [...]
This article was published after the 2010 elections. It points to basic characteristics of the relation between Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots. The explicit or symbolic favour of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and other western governments, as well as that of Ankara, to Mehmet Ali Talat's re-election to the [...]
