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Pro-Reunification Party Wins Turkish Vote

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From Times Wire Reports

The pro-reunification governing party of Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat won parliamentary elections in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state, a victory seen as a boost for peace efforts on the divided island, but one that will not allow the party to govern alone.

Talat’s Republican Turkish Party got 44% of the vote, and the National Unity Party of Dervis Eroglu, which opposes a United Nations plan for reunifying the island, had around 32%, the official elections board reported.

Those preliminary results mean a seven-seat gain for Talat’s party, which will now hold half of the 50 seats in parliament.

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