Nicosia, Cyprus
Voters in the breakaway Turkish part of Cyprus elected a pro-reunification president this week, raising hopes that the divided island could once again become a single country. “I want to give my hand to the Greek Cypriot people and the Greek Cypriot leadership for peace,” said President-elect Mehmet Ali Talat. For the past 30 years, the self-declared Turkish Cypriot state had been governed by nationalist Rauf Denktash, who opposed reconciling with the Greeks. Cyprus split in 1974, when Turkey sent its army into the Turkish sector of the island after Greek Cypriots staged a coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece. The Turkish sector is not internationally recognized as a state.
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