Denktash’s health is improving

FORMER Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, 87, was due to be released from hospital yesterday, the Cyprus News Agency reported yesterday.

Doctors said he was able to eat solid food and communicate clearly.

Denktash had a stroke on May 24 and was transferred to GATA military hospital in Turkey for recovery on July 8.  

Denktash then underwent surgery on August 25 to remove a haematoma in his brain in GATA. 

He had been receiving treatment in the north since August 30 and had to be operated again on September 5. 

He was kept in intensive care throughout the summer. 

In early September his condition was described as critical and reports said then he was no longer communicating and needed mechanical assistance for his heart to work and was breathing with the aid of a ventilator. 

 

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.