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...mainland nearly 50 miles away will soon start. The Turkish Cypriots, who are outnumbered almost 5 to 1 by Greek Cypriots on the island of 659,000 people, apparently do not intend to relinquish any of the salient that has been won for them by the Turkish army. Said Rauf Denktas., leader of the 119,000 Turks on Cyprus: "We want Kyrenia to come back to normal, but it will be different now; we will be the master." Denktas. hinted that federation of the Turkish sector of the island to Turkey it self might be his eventual goal...
...time of the coup he was president of the House of Representatives and one of the few Greek leaders on the deeply divided island who was fully accepted by the minority Turks. For seven years, Clerides has held a running series of friendly talks with Turkish Leader Rauf Denktas, 50, on ways to end the imbroglio between their ethnic communities. Denktas, to whom Clerides paid one of his first visits after being selected as President, said: "He is a man we can trust. He is reasonable and we can talk...
...President also insisted to the Turks-who well remembered the days when his gang used to attack them with provocations-that "the Turkish community is in no danger at all." Cypriot Turks were unconvinced by his assertion. Rauf Denktas, leader of the Turkish community on Cyprus, refused to recognize Sampson's takeover of power and openly called on Turkey and Britain to oppose...
...kept tension high. The latest round of talks in the fruitless 21-month negotiations to find a formula for coexistence between the is land's 490,000 Greeks and 110,000 Turks were adjourned suddenly. "We would have been talking under the threat of guns," explained Turkish Leader Rauf Denktash. Moreover, Makarios, who on one pretext or another has delayed parliamentary elections for five years, may seize upon the tension as an excuse for canceling the June balloting...
...community is forced to support its 20,000 unemployed with annual handouts of $20 million from the Turkish government. Even more serious, however, is the fact that the communities are drawing farther apart in a process described as "creeping partition"-and the renewed terrorism may accelerate the process. Says Rauf Denktash, president of the Turkish Cypriot Communal Chamber: "Cypriots of my generation at least knew each other. A new generation is growing up in different school systems, without any friends on the other side...