GAU is opening a Rauf Raif DENKTAS Exhibition

The Girne American University will be hosting a photograph exhibition prepared by the Journalist Association on the Founding President Rauf Denktas. "Most Prominent leader Rauf Denktash to date" exhibition will consist of previously unpublished photoes taken through his own lens and will portray his childhood, family and years of struggle.

The exhibition which was recently opened in Ankara attracted great interest from Turkish political, diplomatic, media and the public. The Journalist Association in cooperation with Girne American University are bringing the exhibition to the TRNC for the first time. The exhibition will be opened under the state program of July 20th Peace and Freedom celebrations, with the participation of state officials on Friday the 20th of July at 14:00 in the GAU International Congress Hall Spectrum.

Besides the TRNC and Turkish governmental authorities, a very crowded press group will be participating in the opening ceremony of the deceased Founding President of the TRNC, Rauf Raif Denktas’ exhibition, posing not only segments from his life but also evidance of the existance of the Turkish Cypriot side, and their struggle to make their voice heard in international diplomacy to the world in previously unpublished photographs.
“In his name we will continue to fight for the existence of Turkish Cypriots”

The exhibition came together through the intensive joint efforts of Ali Lent, Founder and President of the Journalists Association, and Cem Snow and Mine Çeliker, scanning Danktas’s archive.The head of the Democratic Party Serdar Denktas said that the coming together of the Turkish Cypriots and the exhibition has significant meaning and continued his statement as follows:

“He spent every minute of his life giving messages to his people. He experienced difficult days but did not give up. He visited Cyprus village by village and Turkey state by state and explained the Turkish Cypriot idiology. Cypriot Turks no longer have a Denktas but the nation he left behind exists, and will continue to exist. The Cyprus talks will come to a grind at one stage, and a referandum will take place where the Turkish Cypriot peoples opinions must be sought. Cyprus Turkish people will decide in his name on our future.”

The "Most Prominent leader Rauf Denktash to date" exhibition consisting of more than 100 pictures, will be opened to the public for 10 days in the GAU International Congress Hall Spectrum and foyer