...according to the Turkish Ministry of Labour.
This was published in an article today in Politis newspaper which states that according to the latest figures of the Turkish Ministry of Labour there are 146, 442 turkish citizens living and working in the "trnc". This number includes 34,370 people that have "dual nationality" turkish and T/C but exlude the 45,000 soldiers of the occupying forces.
This number contradicts the latest numbers released by the "trnc" census which calculated the number of Turkish citizens living and working in the north to be 70,525.
The difference is a massive 75,000+. Even if we subtract the 34,370 people with "dual nationality" then the difference is 40,000+ which is almost 60% above the numbers recorded by the "trnc" census.
Well it seems that someone is not telling the truth here about the real numbers of the settlers. I wonder who that is...