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New landscape in Cyprus after election shock

Tom ELLIS

DOSSIER: New hopes for the unification of Cyprus | 19/02/2008

Unexpectedly, Tassos Papadopoulos was not re-elected president of Cyprus. His successor will be chosen in a runoff on Sunday. Both the communist Demetris Christofias (AKEL) and the conservative Ioannis Kasoulides (DISY) are open to closer relations between Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

A last chance in Cyprus? by Hugh Pope

When he witnessed the deadly conflict unfolding between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in late 1963, novelist Lawrence Durrell noted how unreal the bloodshed seemed against the background of the island's idyllic beauty.

Ray of hope in Cyprus

Though with a razor-thin margin, incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos was ahead of the other eight candidates in all public opinion polls since last summer. Even in the last poll published less than a week before Sunday’s voting, he was half percentage point ahead of House of Representatives speaker, socialist AKEL’s Secretary-General Demetris Christofias, and almost two percentage points ahead of European Parliament member, conservative Ioannis Cassoulides. Still, the difference in the standing of the top three candidates in the polls was so small that everyone was commenting that it would be a cliffhanger vote and as the standing of the three top contenders in polls was within a margi

Quo vadis, Cyprus?

Sylvia TİRYAKİ

Turkey quiet on Cyprus election

Turkey gave a muted response yesterday to the defeat of Tassos Papadopoulos in the first round of voting in the presidential election in Cyprus, although some...