
Moderate politician Mustafa Akinci, a supporter of a Cyprus solution, will be the next leader of the Turkish Cypriot community.
With almost all ballots counted in Sunday's runoff election Akinci is leading with about 60 percent of the vote.
His opponent, incumbent community leader Dervis Eroglu, a right-wing nationalist, who was considered a hardliner in negotiations for a solution to the long-standing Cyprus problem, received 40 percent of the vote.
Cyprus was divided in 1974 into Greek Cypriot-controlled south and Turkish Cypriot-controlled north.
It is the first time in recent elections that a Turkish Cypriot leader is elected with so big a vote margin.
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