Rauf Denktash at the United Nations: Speeches on Cyprus

Synopsis

In 1964, the UN Security Council made the fateful decision, in setting up a UN force in Cyprus to keep the peace, to treat the then purely Greek-Cypriot government in office as the "Government of Cyprus". This volume shows, in an introduction based on original sources, how in 1964 and 1965 this crucial process of recognition came about, and examines the events leading up to the creation in 1983 of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The speeches to the UN by the Turkish-Cypriot community's leader, President Rauf Denktash, and the documents appended, should be of interest to historians.

Edited with an introduction by Michael Moran.  out of print. second-hand