Turkish Cypriots began voting on Sunday in a general election that could decide whether a drive to end the decades-old division of Cyprus can resume soon. Opinion polls suggest Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat's Republican Turkish Party (CTP) will again win the largest number of votes but it is likely to need the support of another party, probably its outgoing coalition partner, the Democratic Party. Talat strongly supported a U.N. plan last year to reunite Cyprus which foundered on opposition from the richer, more numerous Greek Cypriots in the south of the island. His main opponent, Dervis Eroglu's National Unity Party (UBP), opposed the U.N. plan and takes a more nationalist line on reunification.
