The Great Dictator of the Small Island The Cyprus Problem

By Ilker Ozkunt

For decades, the story of Turkish Cypriots has been told through official accounts, political slogans, and carefully managed silence. This explosive book tears back the curtain on the hidden forces, private bargains, and shadowed motives that shaped the fate of both Turkish and Greek Cypriots-and asks who truly benefited when the island's future was decided.

At the center of this startling account is Rauf Denktaş, long regarded as a defining figure of his era. But was he really what history has made him out to be? Drawing on the testimony of an insider witness, this book challenges accepted narratives and exposes a far more unsettling reality: that the destinies of ordinary people were steered by those with little interest in their well-being.

Revelatory, provocative, and impossible to ignore, this is the first time the untold side of the Turkish Cypriot story is laid bare from within.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6258776531
• ISBN13: 9786258776539
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Paragraf Books
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"