Turkish leadership attends funeral of former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash
By: Menelaos Hadjicostis, The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Turkey's political and military leaders joined thousands of residents in the northern half of divided Cyprus on Tuesday at a funeral service for former Turkish Cypriot leader and staunch separatist Rauf Denktash.
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan were among mourners filing past Denktash's coffin at the presidential palace where it lied in state for two days to pay their last respects before his burial in the Turkish Cypriot part of the island's capital.
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