North Cyprus newspaper wrote about former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash’s nomination  for  Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Committee told from Oslo, “A nomination for a dead person is not a valid nomination.”

 Each year around 150-200 nominations are received worldwide and candidates must be alive.

Denktash, who headed the self-declared “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” for more than 30 years, died aged 88 last month.