Claim: Rauf Denktaş was president of Northern Cyprus from 1985 until 2005.
Evidence: He occupied this position as the President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus between the declaration of the de facto state by Denktaş 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. 
Rauf Denktaş
(1924–2012) 15 November 1983