Serdar Denktaş is son of

Rauf Denktaş Rauf Raif Denktaş (27 January 1924 – 13 January 2012) was a Turkish Cypriot politician, barrister and jurist who served as the founding president of Northern Cyprus. He occupied this position as the president of the Turkish Republic of North ...

, the former

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of the

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. He was the

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of Northern Cyprus from April 2016 to May 2019. His previous portfolios include Labour, Settlement, Foreign Affairs, Economy, Tourism, Sports, Interior, Rural Affairs, Environment, State, Youth, National Education and Culture. He was also an acting Prime Minister from 23 April 2005 to 26 April 2005. Currently he is the leader of the

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. He is viewed as a more pragmatic politician in the Cyprus problem than his father. He was born in

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( tr, Lefkoşa) in 1959. After completing a course in printing at the

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in the United Kingdom, he entered

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, to study

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. However, he did not succeed in completing his studies and returned to

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. He served as the General Manager of the Credit Bank of Cyprus. In the 1990 General Elections he was elected to the TRNC Parliament as a

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MP for Nicosia, and served as the

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, Rural Affairs and

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. He resigned from the NUP in 1992 and took part in the formation of the Democratic Party. In the 1993 General Elections he was re-elected to his seat as a Democratic Party MP. He served in that government as the Minister of Youth and

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. He became the leader of the Democratic Party in 1996. He served briefly as

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and Deputy Prime Minister until the formation of a new coalition government. He was re-elected to the TRNC Parliament at the 1998

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. In 1991, he was appointed Minister of

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and Environment. At the general elections in 2003, he was re-elected and appointed as the

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and

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until September 2006, when the Democratic Party was dropped as a coalition partner by the

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. He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and

on 16 April 2016. His term as Deputy Prime Minister ended 2 February 2018. He resigned as Minister of Finance on 8 May 2019. He speaks

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and English.

Political titles

Serdar Denktaş is known for serving under a large number of titles throughout his political career. The following table lists his governmental and legislative titles.

References

External links

TRNC Deputy Prime Ministry and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Denktas, Serdar 1959 births Living people 21st-century prime ministers of Northern Cyprus People from North Nicosia National Unity Party (Northern Cyprus) politicians Democratic Party (Northern Cyprus) politicians Prime Ministers of Northern Cyprus Finance ministers of Northern Cyprus Foreign ministers of Northern Cyprus Government ministers of Northern Cyprus Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Northern Cyprus) Leaders of political parties in Northern Cyprus Children of national leaders Türk Maarif Koleji alumni