Tassos Papadopoulos, the hard-line former president of Cyprus, who ushered the divided island into the European Union after rallying Greek Cypriots to reject a United Nations peace deal, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 74.
Papadopoulos served as president from 2003 to March 2008. A longtime chain smoker, he was hospitalized last month with severe breathing problems.
His successor, President Dimitris Christofias, called him "one of the protagonists of our country's modern history." Mehmet Ali Talat, the Turkish Cypriot leader, expressed sorrow over Papadopoulos's death and conveyed his condolences to the late president's family, his official Web site said.
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