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Hardliners set to win Turkish Cypriot election
Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:00pm EDT
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NICOSIA (Reuters) - Turkish Cypriot hardliners were poised to sweep to a decisive election victory in northern Cyprus on Sunday that could hinder peace talks with Greek Cypriots essential to Turkey's EU membership ambitions.
The two sides launched peace talks in 2008 aimed at creating a state based on the two zones -- Turkish and Greek -- that have existed since a 1974 Turkish invasion.
With more than half the votes counted, the right wing National Unity Party (UBP) had 44.19 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released by the Turkish Cypriot administration.
The UBP advocates an outright two-state settlement on Cyprus, at odds with the federal model now being discussed by Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias.
Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 after a short-lived coup by militant Greek Cypriots seeking union with Greece.
The Greek Cypriots represent Cyprus in the European Union and say they will block Turkey's admission to the EU as long as the island remains divided.
Just under 162,000 people voted in the parliamentary elections in Northern Cyprus, a territory recognized only by Turkey.
Talat will retain his leadership of the territory, but his room for maneuver is likely to be limited by a parliament now dominated by the UBP.
His allies, the Republican Turkish Party (CTP), were in second place with 29.5 percent of the vote.
The basis of the current talks is reuniting the island as a bizonal federation.
The UBP says it wants a rethink of the process.
"We will continue to support negotiations," said UBP leader Dervis Eroglu. "No one should say we are against them. We will put forward our views and discuss them within the framework of Turkey's foreign policy on Cyprus."
In an earlier interview with Turkey's Zaman newspaper, Eroglu was quoted as saying: "Everything will be easier if it is universally accepted that we (Turkish Cypriots) are a nation and that we have a state."
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