| A pro-European Union candidate was elected president of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state on Sunday, voted into office by Turkish Cypriots frustrated by decades of international isolation and a stagnant economy. Mehmet Ali Talat's victory signaled the end of the rule of Rauf Denktash, the hard-liner who has dominated the enclave's politics for three decades. Talat won 56 percent of the vote for president of the self-declared Turkish Cypriot state, while his main rival, Dervis Eroglu, polled just 23 percent, according to official results with all of the ballot boxes counted. |