RAUF DENKTASH – TURKISH CYPRIOT LEADER
Posted Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Rauf Denktash was a Turkish Cypriot politician and leader of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
He was born January 27, 1924, just a year before Cyprus became a British Colony. He was the son of a judge who worked in the British administration.
After graduating from the English high school in Nicosia in 1941, he worked as an English teacher and court interpreter before studying law in London. He returned to Cyprus in 1948 to work as government lawyer and prosecutor, who became involved in the growing Cypriot Turkish movement for self-determination.
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