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Rauf Denktaş

1924 - 2012

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Rauf Raif Denktaş (27 January 1924 – 13 January 2012) was a Turkish Cypriot politician, barrister and jurist who served as the founding president of Northern Cyprus. He occupied this position as the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus between the declaration of the de facto state by Denktaş in 1983 and 2005, as the president of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus between 1975 and 1983 and as the president of the Autonomous Turkish Cypriot Administration between 1974 and 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rauf Denktaş has received more than 280,075 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 50 in 2019). Rauf Denktaş is the 4,711th most popular politician (down from 3,308th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Cyprus (down from 8th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Cypriot Politician.

Rauf Denktaş is most famous for being the President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from 1985 to 2005.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rauf Denktaş ranks 4,711 out of 15,577. Before him are Emperor Go-Komatsu, Bernhard Rust, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Yuya, Lugalbanda, and Miguel de la Madrid. After him are Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Tomiichi Murayama, Yuan Chonghuan, Isabella de' Medici, Bagrat III of Georgia, and Kerbogha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Rauf Denktaş ranks 73. Before him are Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, André Franquin, Dorothy Malone, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Leonid Kogan, and Girma Wolde-Giorgis. After him are Tomiichi Murayama, James Baldwin, Stanley Donen, Kenneth Waltz, John Backus, and Sverre Fehn. Among people deceased in 2012, Rauf Denktaş ranks 66. Before him are Kathryn Joosten, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Herbert Lom, Paddy Roy Bates, Chris Marker, and Miguel de la Madrid. After him are Helmut Haller, Renato Dulbecco, Paul L. Smith, Sergio Oliva, Chaleo Yoovidhya, and David Kelly.

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In Cyprus

Among people born in Cyprus, Rauf Denktaş ranks 10 out of 73. Before him are Makarios III (1913), Saint Spyridon (270), Nicos Anastasiades (1946), John the Merciful (550), Michael Cacoyannis (1922), and Tassos Papadopoulos (1934). After him are Glafcos Clerides (1919), Alparslan Türkeş (1917), Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus (1155), Anne of Cyprus (1418), Christopher A. Pissarides (1948), and Spyros Kyprianou (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In Cyprus

Among politicians born in Cyprus, Rauf Denktaş ranks 5. Before him are Ptolemy XII Auletes (-117), Makarios III (1913), Nicos Anastasiades (1946), and Tassos Papadopoulos (1934). After him are Glafcos Clerides (1919), Alparslan Türkeş (1917), Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus (1155), Anne of Cyprus (1418), Spyros Kyprianou (1932), Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (1442), and Peter I of Cyprus (1328).

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