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[shahmaran]

It is estimated that there is 800,000 Turkish Cypriots worldwide. The results of a census that took place in Northern Cyprus at the end of April 2006 indicated that the Turkish Cypriot population was 100,000 out of a total population of 264,172[1]. An island-wide census in 1960 indicated the number of Turkish Cypriots as 102,000 and Greek Cypriots as 450,000[2].
According to the Northern Cypriot administration, there are 500,000 Turkish Cypriots in Turkey, 250,000 Turkish Cypriots in United Kingdom[1], 50,000 Turkish Cypriots in Australia, 20,000 Turkish Cypriots in North America[3].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Cypriots

Halil, quit posting bollocks... the TC wiki articles are just that!
My estimates, and I can't be bothered to find and post the evidence right now, is that there are a total of 170,000 TCs... diaspora included.

Right, the GR! "estimate" vs. the Wiki "bollocks", himmm though choice there my friend.

Well let me also make an assumption and say that "170,000 TC's worldwide" must be the biggest load of crap i have heard, even coming from you GR!

Ok Shah, give me till midnight and I'll sort this out because I've just gotten home and I'm not in the mood to research right now. Thanks.

Sure, in your own time

[Sotos]

I don't care if they are a minority in the occupied areas. What I know is that in Cyprus they are a minority because they are only the 18%.

[shahmaran]

Yes like Kikapu says, sometimes size does not matter

[bill cobbett]

18%

[Get Real!]

Official census of Cyprus…

In 1960, the last year for which there was an official census for the entire population of Cyprus, the island was home to 573,566 people. Official estimates held that there were 441,568 Greek Cypriots, 3,627 Armenians, 2,706 Maronites (in the future these two groups were to be counted as part of the Greek Cypriot community, according to the terms of the constitution of 1960), 103,822 Turkish Cypriots, and 24,408 others (mostly foreigners). According to government statistics, 81.14 percent of Cypriots in 1960, were Greek Cypriot (including Armenians and Maronites) and 18.86 percent were Turkish Cypriot.

On Emigration we find…

The periods of greatest emigration were 1955-59, the 1960s, and 1974-79, times of political instability and socioeconomic insecurity when future prospects appeared bleak and unpromising. Between 1955 and 1959, the period of anticolonial struggle, 29,000 Cypriots, 5 percent of the population, left the island. In the 1960s, there were periods of economic recession and intercommunal strife, and net emigration has been estimated at about 50,000, or 8.5 percent of the island's 1970 population. Most of these emigrants were young males from rural areas and usually unemployed. Some five percent were factory workers and only 5 percent were university graduates. Britain headed the list of destinations, taking more than 75 percent of the emigrants in 1953-73; another 8 to 10 percent went to Australia, and about 5 percent to North America.

and a little further down...

Although emigration slowed to a trickle during the 1980s, so many Cypriots had left the island in preceding decades that in the late 1980s an estimated 300,000 Cypriots (a number equivalent to 60 percent of the population of the Republic of Cyprus) resided in seven foreign countries.

Eric Solsten, ed. Cyprus: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1991.
http://countrystudies.us/cyprus/21.htm


On the basis of this article I take back my initial estimate of 170,000 TCs worldwide and reduce that to around 150,000 MAX!!!

[Big Al]

Id rather be a minority to my turkish brothers and sisters rather than orthodox hellenic GC's.

[Oracle]

Id rather be a minority to my turkish brothers and sisters rather than orthodox hellenic GC's.

So why would such as small insignificant minority lacking in collective consciousness, wish to dominate a significant majority in their own country?

..... Bit like Hitler attempting to make up for a shortfall in size, by being a little shit, in order to get noticed!

[humanist]

I think the TC's are happy with their current position lets leave it be.

[Nurgary]

But the minority hold 37% - so who has the upper hand?

[humanist]

Hey nurgary, no one says it has to be fair mate?