Tatar swept away by Erhurman landslide

The inflection point in Turkish Cypriot politics, the crossroads, the quasi-referendum between a two-state solution and a federal solution to the Cyprus problem, between Europe and Turkey, this year’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election which sat on a knife-edge on the morning of October 19, was over in an unprecedented landslide a few hours later.

Pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman won 62.8 per cent of the vote, a proportion not matched since Rauf Denktash’s victory in 1990...