Turkey's leaders come to mourn Turk Cypriot champion
3:19 a.m. CST, January 17, 2012
NICOSIA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Turkey's leaders flocked to
north Cyprus on Tuesday for the funeral of Rauf Denktash, a
champion of Turkish Cypriot independence but reviled by Greek
Cypriots as an architect of the island's partition.
The memorial service for Denktash, who died on Jan. 13 at
the age of 88, was being held just days ahead of a summit in New
York that could decide the fate of peace talks over the
ethnically split island in the eastern Mediterranean.
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