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Former minister represents Turkish Cypriots in Budapest
SERDAR Denktaş, former minister, Presidential candidate and son of the TRNC’s founding President Rauf Raif Denktaş, was present in the Hungarian Parliament last week alongside his son Rauf Denktaş, for the opening ceremony of the Hungarian Turan Congress, which they were attending as guests.
While at the congress, Mr Denktaş met with various dignitaries including the Organisation of Turkic States’ White Beard Delegation’s chairman Binali Yıldırım, the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic Speaking Countries, Mehmet Süreyya, and others.
Mr Denktaş expressed his “excitement” for North Cyprus to be among Turkic countries, and said that he believes that the Turkic world will be a “determining factor” in global geopolitics in the future.
At a meeting with the Kyrgyz Minister of Culture Azamat Jamankulov, Mr Denktaş said that it would be “a pleasure” to host dignitaries in North Cyprus, and said that the country is ready to be “the holiday region of the Turkic world”, and that people will “feel at home” here.
Following the formalities in the Hungarian Parliament, Serdar and Rauf Denktaş went to the village of Burgac in the Hungarian Great Plains to attend a traditional equestrian event.
The event saw “hundreds” of horses and riders put on a show in order to represent the migration of Turkic tribes from Central Asia to Europe.
At one point, the flags of various Turkic lands were raised and carried by the horsemen in front of the audience, with the TRNC’s flag among those on display.
Serdar Denktaş was reportedly “moved to tears” by the display, and was then thanked by the President of the Hungarian Turan Foundation Andras Biro for his attendance at the event. Mr Biro, in a speech, said that Cyprus is the “apple of the eye of the Turkic world”.