"Turkish Cypriot premier resigns amid deadlock
Agence France-Presse, Reuters
Thursday, October 21, 2004
NICOSIA The Turkish Cypriot prime minister, Mehmet Ali Talat, on Wednesday announced his resignation after a months-long political deadlock in breakaway northern Cyprus.
'We submitted our resignation,' Talat said in the Turkish-held sector of the island's divided capital flanked by the deputy prime minister, Serdar Denktash, son of the revered Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash."
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