EDUCATION
Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn, London.

CAREER
Teacher, 1942-43; lawyer, 1947-49; member of Consultative Assembly in search of self-government for Cyprus and member of the Turkish Affairs Committee, 1948; Junior Crown Counsel to the Attorney-General"s Office, Crown Counsel and Ag. Solicitor-General, 1949-1957.

Chairman of the Federation of Turkish Cypriot Association, 1957; attended U.N. General Assembly on behalf of the Turkish Cypriots, 1958; advised Turkish Government on the rights of Turkish Cypriot people during the preparation of Zurich Agreement, December 1958; leader of the Turkish Cypriot delegation at the London Conference where the establishment of a bi-communal partnership state was endorsed by the two peoples of Cyprus, Turkey, Greece and Great Britain, February 1959; head of the Turkish Cypriot Delegation at Constitutional Committee drafting Cyprus Constitution, 1959-1960; elected President of the Turkish Communal Chamber, 1960; entry into the island arbitrarily prohibited for four years by the Greek Cypriot leadership after the collapse of the partnership state, 1964-1968.

Took up duties as President of the Turkish Communal Chamber and Vice-President of the Turkish Cypriot Administration, 1968; interlocutor at the inter-communal talks, 1968, which continued until the Greek coup in Cyprus on 15 July 1974; re-elected President of the Turkish Communal Chamber, 1970; elected Vice-President of the Republic and President of the Turkish Cypriot Administration, 1973; formed the National Unity Party, 1975; elected President of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus, 1976; elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, 1985; re-elected 1990 and 1995.

PUBLICATIONS

• Secrets of Happiness, (Turkish), Nicosia, 1941;
• Hell Without Fire, (Turkish), Nicosia, 1944;
• Criminal Cases, Nicosia, 1954;
• A Handbook of Criminal Cases, Nicosia, 1955;
• Five to Twelve, (Turkish), Nicosia, 1964;
• The Cyprus Problem, Nicosia, 1968;
• The Akritas Plan, Nicosia, 1968;
• A Short Discourse on Cyprus, Nicosia, 1972;
• The Cyprus Problem, Nicosia, 1974;
• Dialogue With Youth, (Turkish), Nicosia, 1981;
• The Cyprus Triangle, Nicosia, 1982;
• Woman and the World, (Turkish), Nicosia, 1985;
• For Tomorrows, (Turkish), Nicosia, 1986;
• The Cyprus Problem (23rd Year), Nicosia, 1986;
• UN Speeches on Cyprus, Nicosia, 1986;
• Cyprus, An Indictment and Defense, Nicosia, 1987;
• Ataturk, Religion and Secularism, (Turkish), Nicosia, 1989;
• The Cyprus Triangle (second and enlarged edition), Nicosia, 1989;
• A Challenge on Cyprus, Nicosia, 1990;
• Denktash As A Photographer, Images From Northern Cyprus, Nicosia, 1991;
• The Cyprus Problem and the Remedy, Nicosia, 1992;
• The First 6 Months, (Turkish), (Nicosia, 1993;
• Those Days, (Turkish), Nicosia, 1993
  

DEGREES

• Honorary PhD, Middle East Technical University (Ortadogu Teknik �niversitesi), Ankara, 1984.
• Honorary Doctor of Laws degree of the Southern University, Washington D.C. 1989.
• Honorary PhD on Political Sciences of the Eastern Mediterranean University (TRNC), 1990.
• Honorary PhD on Economic Development and International Relations of the Black Sea Technical University (Karadeniz Teknik �niversitesi), 10 May 1991.