Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
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Eight years after the Turkish Federative State of North Cyprus was proclaimed (in 1975), The UDI of North Cyprus was presented to the Northern Cypriot Parliament in North Nicosia by Turkish Cypriot Leader/Northern Cypriot State President Rauf Denktash on November 15, 1983. Containing text esposing human rights and a desire to live side-by-side with the Greek Cypriot population, it ended with a declaration that Northern Cyprus was an independent and sovereign state, naming the entity the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The Northern Cypriot Parliament passed a unaminous resolution later that day ratifying the declaraion.
International Reaction
The United Nations Security Council issued two resolutions (541 and 550) proclaiming that the Turkish Cypriot UDI was illegal and that no other soveriegn state should recogize the legality of the declaration. To date, only Turkey has formally done so, though the Organization of the Islamic Conference recognizes the TRNC as a constituent state of Cyprus. The parliament of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, which is an exclave of Azerbaijan, has issued a resolution recognizing the TRNC as a soveriegn nation, but as this recognition is not shared by Azerbaijan's central government, is not regarded as official by the world at large.
UDI text
- Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_of_the_Turkish_Republic_of_Northern_Cyprus) on Wikisource
