Turkish leaders arrive in TRNC

LEFKOSA (A.A) - January 17, 2012 - Turkish leaders arrived in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on Tuesday to attend the funeral ceremony of deceased former Turkish Cypriot president Rauf Denktas.  President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek, deputy premiers Ali Babacan and Bekir Bozdag, Family & Social Policies Minister Fatma Sahin, EU Minister Egemen Bagis, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek, National Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz, and several other high-level officials also arrived in Lefkosa. Rauf Denktas died at the age of 88 on Friday.