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- Birth nameRauf Raif Denktash
- Rauf Denktas was born on January 24, 1924 in Paphos, Cyprus. He was a writer, known for Isgal Altinda (1993), Kypros '72 (1972) and Dateline (1984). He was married to Aydin Munir. He died on January 13, 2012 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- SpouseAydin Munir(1949 - January 13, 2012) (his death, 5 children)
- First president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is not recognized by any nation in the world except Turkey.
- Turkish Cypriot leader.
- He became a leader of the Turkish Resistance Organization in the 1950s.
- He and his wife, Ayndin Munir, were married in 1949 until his death in 2012. They had two sons and two daughters. Both sons died including one in a traffic accident in 1986.
- He was born into a wealthy family in Papphos (Baf in Turkish), a community in the Greek Majority. He attended the English School in Nicosia in the 1930s. He was the son of Raif Bey Denktash, a judge. He earned his degree in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn in London, England. He had a practice in Nicoseia in the late 1940s. He became a crown prosecutor in 1952 and was acting solicitor general from 1956 to 1958.
- I know that whatever I do, I will be known as Mr. No No, the one who is always intransigent. We are like little candles in a sea of Greeks. One storm and we are all snuffed out.
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