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Turkish secret service killed my son - Denktash

RAUF Denktash said this week that the Turkish secret service had murdered his son Raif in 1985, but at the same time took care to implicate a Turk of Greek origin.

He made the claim in an interview in the Istanbul daily newspaper Vatan.

Raif Denktash died in a road crash in December 1985.

It was suggested to Denktash during the interview that if his son Raif had been alive, things would have been different.

The elderly Turkish Cypriot leader agreed and said that until Raif’s death, his second son Serdar had not thought of going into politics.

Prodded to say if he had any suspicions about the circumstances of his son’s fatal accident, Denktash took a deep sigh and said he didn’t even like to think about it.

Yet, he went on to say that Raif was under a lot of psychological pressure in those days, because a newspaper had written under banner headlines that he was involved in drug trafficking.

"Raif came crying to me and said, ‘Dad, how can I leave something like this to my children?"

Denktash said he advised his son to write a denial but the newspaper refused to publish it.

Pulling his strings in MIT, and in particular contacting the Deputy Director himself, General Nurettin Ersin, Denktash learnt that the information about his son had been leaked to the paper from inside MIT from someone who had given a taped statement.

Denktash got hold of the tapes and listened to a man who claimed ‘trucker Raif’ was one of his contacts in running drugs. Asked by his interrogator if this ‘trucker Raif’ was Rauf Denktash’s son, the man said "yes".

To another question if MIT leaked his son’s name with the approval of Turgut Ozal’s government, or if a MIT faction was involved, Denktash said: "Yes, someone from within. Whether it was an official act by MIT, whose director at the time was Burhanettin Bigali, I do not know. But it was leaked from there to the press in this way."

Denktash also contacted the editor of the newspaper, complaining to him about the report. He said the answer he got from him was interesting. "The editor said that their news chief was of Greek origin and had since been fired. And that’s how it remained," Denktash said.

He also said that the same newspaper had one month before this incident written that Raif was hiding anarchist Husein Kocabas, who was responsible for the murder of prosecutor Dogan Oz, in his house. Raif sued the paper and got 50,000 Turkish lira in damages, but without publishing a retraction.

"So, Raif was going to the university and teaching in this psychological situation. That was when he had the accident," Rauf Denktash said, adding that it was the greatest tragedy of his life.

[MicAtCyp]

Hmmm, first time I hear this version.
What I read once is that Raif was killed by MIT because he dared call the Turkish army "occupation force". I also heard that Denktash himself actually gave his approval for MIT to proceed.
I don't really know how true these are.It would be interesting to hear what the TC friends in this forum know about this case.

[insan]

http://www.gazetevatan.com/cat/haber_de ... id=1&aid=0

http://www.gazetevatan.com/cat/haber_de ... id=1&aid=0


The original version of the story is much more detailed and long... It's not how it was translated by cyprusmail... It should be translated accurately and completely in order to understand the essential of the issue but I have no time to translate it now; perhaps later or one of the TC member of this forum may translate it for you...


When I read the whole story, it seemed to me that Denktash created just another fiction story to create impressions in favour of himself; at the first stage, his son Raif and Turkey.... One of the most remarkable point of the interview is what he said about TMTs faults and his position in the organization...

[insan]

http://www.cyprusmedianet.com/EL/article/30056?

http://www.cyprusmedianet.com/EL/article/30053?



A more accurate but summarized version of the original interview in Greek....

[insan]

Though I don't know if it was accurately translated by cyprusmedianet

[insan]

http://www.kibrisligazetesi.net/yazaryazi.php?YazarId=9

A perfect analysis regarding the sneaky game Denktash try to play... in Turkish.

[MicAtCyp]

Insan gardas,
Denktas said they were about to give their yes or no answer to Turkey.
Yes or no for what? I didn' t understand that part.

[metecyp]

Denktas said they were about to give their yes or no answer to Turkey.
Yes or no for what? I didn' t understand that part.

Yes, I was confused about that too...

[insan]

At the January 1985 summit, UN officials presented a draft framework agreement for the establishment of a bizonal, bicommunal federal republic. The parties, according to many accounts, had been briefed on its contents but not directly involved in its drafting. Denktas indicated his willingness to sign the draft, on the understanding that details would be worked out in separate talks. However, Kyprianou declined to sign, saying he considered the draft a basis for negotiations but that such a commitment was premature.

The collapse of the summit redounded to Turkish Cypriot favor, in the reactions of the news media and Cyprus's Western friends. By 1990, however, Turkish Cypriots referred to the 1985 summit as a regrettable Turkish Cypriot acquiescence to external pressure, from Turkey and the United States in particular.

The UN worked intensively with the two parties after the summit, on the assumption that a tactical misstep need not undermine the considerable achievement of drafting an outline reflecting broad areas of agreement. Yet UN efforts in the months that followed showed the near-impossibility of bridging the gaps; drafts proved acceptable to one side or the other, but never both. In April 1985, a draft framework agreement won acceptance by Greek Cypriots and was rejected by the Turkish Cypriot side. After extensive consultations a new draft was promulgated; it was embraced by the Turkish Cypriots and rejected by the Greek Cypriots.

[brother]

This is denktash at his horrible slimey self, remember he is a two faced back stabbing judas.

I posted this just so you can all see the depths he will drop to.