Hero to some, villain to others in divided island communities
January 19, 2012
RAUF DENKTASH
TURKISH CYPRIOT LEADER
27-1-1924 - 6-1-2012
By ROBERT McFADDEN
RAUF Denktash, the former leader of the Turkish minority in Cyprus, who for decades opposed reunification of that divided Mediterranean island in his resolute pursuit of a separate state for his people, has died of multiple organ failure in hospital north of Nicosia. He was 87.
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