Denktash health ‘improved’

THE HEALTH of former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash is improving, press reports from the north said yesterday.

Denktash, 87, is still on a ventilator but is partially conscious. He was admitted to hospital on Wednesday after returning from a clinic in Turkey on Tuesday night where he had undergone surgery to remove a haematoma in his brain.

Although his condition is said to have improved, he is still breathing with the aid of a ventilator.

Denktash had a stroke on May 24.

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