Serdar Denktash survives horror crash

SERDAR Denktash, son of Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash and ‘Deputy Prime Minister’ of the occupation regime, narrowly escaped death on Sunday when his four-wheel-drive car lost a wheel and overturned.

Denktash was travelling with his family near occupied Tymbou Airport when the right hand front wheel of their Toyota Land Cruiser came off.

The vehicle skidded off the road and overturned in a neighbouring field. Authorities have yet to determine why the wheel came off, although press reports said Denktash has played down suggestions of sabotage. He and his family escaped with minor scratches.

The accident occurred close to the spot where Rauf Denktash’s elder son Raif died in a car crash in 1985.

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