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| Yvonne Çerkez will be signing copies of her book at the Regency. Photo: New Cyprus Magazine |
A new biography
about former TRNC President Rauf Raif Denktaş is being launched at a special
event in North London . Author Yvonne Çerkez
will be on hand to sign copies of her book Rauf
Denktaş: A Private Portrait, which was released last
September.
The launch event
takes place this Thursday at the Regency Banqueting Suite in North London and is open to the public. Immediately
after the book signing, the venue will also host a mevlit (prayer service) for the late
President, who passed away on 13 January 2012. Light refreshments will be served
after the mevlit.
Çerkez’s authorised biography gives a unique insight into
the life and work of the long-serving Turkish Cypriot leader. In the book’s
preface, Lord Ken Maginnis of Drumglass says:
“Rauf Denktaş, founder of the independent Turkish Republic
of Northern Cyprus, spent some sixty years representing and fighting for the
interests of his people in what the world would come to shorthand as 'the
Cyprus Problem'. It earned him an international reputation as both a statesman
and, for those he thwarted, an intransigent opponent.
The politics of his long life have been well documented, albeit not always truthfully by those who cast him as the villain of a divided Cyprus, but perhaps inevitably the public man has both overshadowed and obscured the private man – the Rauf Denktaş whose personal life was equally troubled and challenging.
The politics of his long life have been well documented, albeit not always truthfully by those who cast him as the villain of a divided Cyprus, but perhaps inevitably the public man has both overshadowed and obscured the private man – the Rauf Denktaş whose personal life was equally troubled and challenging.
This biography, which Rauf Denktaş both authorised and
actively supported, is therefore a portrait of the real man behind that public
image - humorous, emotional, patriotic in the best sense, and unwavering in his
determination that his people were not to be denied their dignity and rights.
It is Denktaş as he himself would want you to remember him.”
Dates: Thursday 22
January 2015
Address: Regency Banqueting
Suite, 113 Bruce Grove, Tottenham, London
Start time: 7.30-9.30pm
Entry: FREE
Book price: £9.99
Info and bookings: For enquiries linked to the Mevlit please call Arife Ridvan on
07713160684 and in relation to Rauf Denktaş: A Private Portrait book sales/enquiries Fevzi
Hussein on 07871 606376. RELATED ARTICLES
We Remember...Rauf Raif Denktaş, died January 13th, 2012, 13 Jan. 2014
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