Petrosyan I. [Review:] Kıbrıs İslâm Yazmaları Kataloğu. Hazırlayanlar Ramazan Şeşen, Mustafa Haşim Altan I Cevat İzgi. Giriş Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. İstanbul: 1415/1995, XLI, 86 pp. (in Turkish), LII, 630 pp. (in Arabic), 14 Plates (facsimile) // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 3. No. 1. March 1997. P. 65—66.
The Catalogue under review published in Istanbul contains
a description of Oriental manuscripts preserved in the
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The text of the
Catalogue is preceded by a Foreword of the President of the
Republic, Rauf Denktash, who is describing the cultural
and political aim of the publication as an attempt to make
the “new generations” acquainted with the important
evidence of the presence of the Turkish civilization on the
island of Cyprus...