- 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.
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