NationStates Jolt Archive

After the UN decision dated 13 May 1983 to terminate "Cyprus Turkish Federated State", the Cypriot Turkish community gave a memorandum to President Rauf Denktaş on 20 May 1983 and demanded the declaration of independence. Cyprus Turkish Federated State Assembly saw that the talks with Cypriot Greeks and Greeks would continue to be fruitless and unanimously proclaimed the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on 17 November 1983. The "Independence Statement" was announced by Rauf Denktaş. The united Nations Security Council held a meeting on 17 November 1983 and made the decision No. 541 that "the declaration of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" was unnecessary and requested the Turkish side to abandon the decision. With this decision, the UN Security Council opposed its own laws that "All peoples have the right to self-determination in case they can freely decided for their political status and follow economic, social and cultural developments". This biased decision of the UN Security Council was rejected by Turkey and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The government of the Republic of Turkey officially recognized the Republic of Northern Cyprus. 0n 17 April 1984, ambassadors reciprocally submitted letters of confidence to the Presidents.
The Constitution prepared by the KKTC Constitutional Assembly was approved 0n 12 March 1985 in the Assembly and put into effect after taking 70 % of the votes of Cypriot Turks in public voting on 5 May 1985. In the elections that 4 candidates participated on 9 June 1985, Rauf Denktaş got 70.48 % of Turkish votes on the island and became the first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.