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Dr Dervis Eroglu has become the new leader of the breakaway “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”.
 

Diplomats have said that a win for Eroglu could slow the pace of the UN backed reunification talks.
 

Eroglu supports Turkish Cypriot Independence and wants more autonomy for each community in any peace settlement, which rules out concessions key to Greek Cypriots in reunification talks.
 

"Talks will continue because I want peace more than those who say that I don't," Eroglu told supporters at a rally after preliminary results indicated he had won.

However, Eroglu wants more independence for each community in any peace settlement, a stance at odds with the basis of talks until now that the island should be a federation of two zones with an effective central government.

 He has also ruled out any Greek Cypriot return to land now held by Turks.
  
  


  
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