From: v999saum@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Varnavas A. Lambrou)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.greek
Subject: Turkish Invasion in Cyprus 1974 cont...
Date: 6 Jan 93 02:25:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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COLONIZATION OF THE OCCUPIED AREA


Soon after the invasion a transfer of colonists began from Turkey to the 
occupied area of Cyprus.

When the "Turkish Federate State of Cyprus" was declared in the occupied areas
in 1975, any member of the occupation forces of Turkey and anyone who had served
in the terrorist organization, TMT, was given the right to acquire citizenship
rights.

The illegal importation of settlers from Anatolia into the occupied area is well
doccumented in the local Turkish Cypriot and international press.

It is also clearly borne out by the  available statistics. According to the
latest 1988 statistics yearbook (issued in December 1989) by the so-called
"State Planning Organization Statistics and Research Office" the total 
population in the occupied area was 170,000.

This figure is in stark contrast to the estimate given by the Cyprus Republic's
Statistics Department (1988) calculation of 129,000, based on the mean growth 
of the Turkish Cypriot population over the period 1973-1983. Given also the fact
that in excess of 30,000 Turkish Cypriots have migrated to the UK, Australia, 
Canada and the Federral Republic of Germany the de jure population of Turkish 
Cypriots cannot exceed 100,000. The remainder 70,000 can only be accounted for
as illegal settlers from Turkey.


The Turkish Aims.

The Turkish aims behind this demographic manipulation are the following:
	i) To alter the demographic character of the island for political
gains- i.e. to claim more territory, political rights etc during negotiations.
	ii) To strengthen the hand of the chauvinist elements among the Turkish
Cypriot population, i.e. the Denktash-NUP ruling clique. This has been 
repeatedly demonstrated during the course of "presidential" and "parliamentary"
elections in the occupied area.
	iii) To break the centuries long bonds of friendship and the common 
struggles uniting the two Cyprus Communities.
	iv) To stiffle the voices of progressive Turkish Cypriots who are 
working for reapprochement and a genuinely federal solution to the problem.
	v) To effect an irreversible change in the cultural ethos and identity
of the indigenous population by upgrading traditional Turkish values and
downgrading the modern trends of the mainly westernised Turkish Cypriots.



"We warned the officials once again. We told them these newcomers would be a
nuisance to our decent citizens; We told them to halt them before it becomes
too late. They turned a deaf ear to us and did nothing. On the contrary, the
newcomers were given houses, land, food and money. They were given "bonuses"
amounting to tens of thousands of Turkish Lira under the cover of settlement 
credits`. They told the Turkish Cypriots: "We saved you- get out of here. These
places belong to us"."

Dr Fazil Kuchuk "Halkin Sesi", 24 May 1978.



"The problems of the population in the North are becoming greater because of
the attitude of the mainland Turks who have settled there in thousands. We
received many complaints of many crimes and attrocities commited by the
mainland Turks against the population of the north, both Greek Cypriots and
Turkish Cypriots, without being punished."

Asme Humanitas (W. German Humanitarian Organisation) Press Conference on 5 May
1977.