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Tufan Erhürman, leader of the pro-reunification Republican Turkish Party, has won the Turkish Cypriot presidential election in a landslide on Sunday, decisively defeating the Ankara-backed incumbent Ersin Tatar.

The heads of the Greek affairs group in the House of Representatives (Hellenic Caucus) are calling for the State Department to exert pressure for the release of the 5 Greek Cypriots who continue to be detained in the Turkish-occupied areas of Cyprus through a letter they sent to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Authorities in the Turkish-controlled north of Cyprus have arrested five elderly Greek Cypriots on espionage charges, a move the Greek Cypriot government is treating as a retaliatory act in a long-standing property dispute.