Pro-EU Turk Cypriot parties unite to defeat Denktash

”The three parties as a first step soon after the elections will terminate the duties of President Denktash as negotiator and will appoint a new team of negotiators with the confidence of the majority in the assembly,” the statement said. Turkey invaded northern Cyprus in 1974 after a brief Greek Cypriot coup engineered by the military then ruling Greece. A U.N. peacekeeping force mans a corridor of land laced with mines separating the northern third from the rest of the island.
The three anti-Denktash parties are the Solution and EU Party of Ali Erel, the Peace and Democracy Movement of Mustafa Akinci and the Republican Turkish Party of Mehmet Ali Talat.