"We should welcome Talat's triumph
MEHMET ALI TALAT and his Republican Turkish Party (CTP) were the undisputed winners of Sunday�s �parliamentary� elections in the north. The CTP increased its share of the vote by nine percentage points and took almost half of the assembly�s 50 seats. He could, realistically, form a minority �government� without entering a coalition with another party, even though it is more than likely he will form an alliance that will guarantee him a working majority.
His comfortable victory underlined the desire of the majority of Turkish Cypriots for a settlement that would re-unify the island, as opposed to the two-state solution that Dervis Eroglu�s UBP stood for. Talat has always been committed to re-unification, despite the efforts of the Cyprus government to present him as a new Denktash and as Ankara�s puppet hell-bent on partitioning the island. These crude accusations may work domestically, but outside Cyprus nobody takes them seriously."
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