The Western Karpas Peninsula
View to Kaplıca (Davlos) with its Rauf Raif Denktaş Camii, a mosque named after Rauf Denktaş (1924 – 2012), who served as the founding President of Northern Cyprus, between the declaration of the de facto state by him in 1983 and 2005, as the President of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus between 1975 and 1983 and as the President of the Autonomous Turkish Cypriot Administration between 1974 and 1975. He was also elected in 1973 as the Vice-President of the Republic of Cyprus.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Wed May 11, 2016