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Founder of Turkish Cyprus, Rauf DenktaÅŸ, dies at age 88

13 January 2012 22:00 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. DenktaÅŸ, who had experienced deteriorating health for the past decade, was admitted to hospital on Jan. 8 with dehydration which rapidly developed into multiple organ failure.

"He had the soul of a fighter," his son, Serdar DenktaÅŸ, told state TV in a live broadcast. His family were by his side.

DenktaÅŸ had spent several weeks in hospital in 2011 following a stroke.

Turkish Cypriot government officials and senior army personnel came to the hospital where DenktaÅŸ died. He was now in the intensive care unit for almost a week.

DenktaÅŸ, who was first hospitalized in May following complaints stemming from high blood pressure, later underwent brain surgery in Ankara. He was admitted to a hospital in LefkoÅŸa on Jan. 5 following complaints of diarrhea and fatigue.

A controversial figure viewed as a national hero by Turks but vilified by many Greeks, DenktaÅŸ held center stage in the past half-century of the Cyprus conflict.

The island, home to Turks and Greeks, experienced upheaval and ethnic strife after independence from Britain in 1960, and was divided in a Turkish intervention in 1974 triggered by a brief Greek-inspired coup.

Greek Cypriots now live in Cyprusâ€™s south under an internationally recognised government and Turkish Cypriots in the north, in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) DenktaÅŸ founded in 1983. The state is recognised only by Ankara while the south represents the island in the EU.

On and off talks have failed to reunite Cyprus, which is a key source of tension between NATO allies Greece and Turkey and harms Ankaraâ€™s bid to join the EU.

The United Nations is now engaged in a new round of peace talks between the two sides, hoping for a deal by the time Greek Cyprus assumes the EU presidency in July.

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