Turkish Cypriots Vote in Presidential Run-off amid Tensions

Incumbent president Mustafa Akinci and the current Prime Minister Ersin Tatar contest in the runoff vote.

The president supports the island’s reunification with the majority Greek-speaking EU member, the Republic of Cyprus in the south.

But the right-wing Turkish nationalist Tatar supports separate sovereign administrations on the island — a plan that Turkey has recently said is the only solution to the decades-long dispute.