Mehmet Ali Talat

Mehmet Ali Talat

Mehmet Ali Talât (born July 6, 1952 in Kyrenia ) is a Turkish Cypriot politician, chairman of the Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi and was the President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from 2005 to 2010 .

Mehmet Ali Talât is a politician of the Turkish Cypriot Turkish Republican Party (CTP) and was Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus from January 2004 to April 2005. During this period, which also included the referendum on the reunification of Cyprus, which was approved by a large majority in Northern Cyprus, his party and his position of intensified Turkish-Cypriot efforts for reunification gained strong popularity.

In the new elections in February 2005, which had become necessary because the coalition of the CTP and the Democratic Party (DP) had lost their majority in parliament, the CTP of Prime Minister Talât gained significantly (+6 seats) and only narrowly missed the majority Seats (she received 24 seats out of 50). She then renewed the coalition with the Democratic Party of Serdar Denktaş and Talât remained Prime Minister of a provisional government until the presidential elections.

Talât won the presidential elections on April 17, 2005 with 55.6 percent of the vote. The strongest contestant was Derviş Eroğlu from the National Unity Party (UBP) of Rauf Denktaş , who got 22.7% of the vote.

In the presidential elections in April 2010, Talât was narrowly defeated by UBP candidate Derviş Eroğlu in the first ballot .

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1. ^ Nationalist Eroğlu wins presidential elections . Spiegel Online , April 19, 2010. Accessed the same day.