Murataga wrote:Firstly, there is nothing wrong about country inviting/hosting immigrants. This is economically, politically and strategically a methodology for moving forward in many countries (with the U.S.A. leading them) around the world and it is an absolute necessity for the TRNC given our special circumstances.
Secondly, as a person who has attended graduate school in the U.S.A., I can confidently tell you that thousands of people every year from around the world (including many of European heritage) get and education in the U.S. and choose to stay there afterwards. The root causes of this phenomenon are numerous and often much more complicated than what you try to make it sound above.
But since you brought it up: I would be very interested to compare the statistics of the return rate of TCs educated abroad once the embargo is lifted – an embargo which you know very well started way before the TRNC was established and way before 1974.
There is nothing wrong with having guest workers or migrants in one's country...But show me one other country in the world,Murataga,where the guest workers and migrants outnumber the natives 2 to 1...
And show me one country which gives their guest workers,who can just come into the country at will,without a passport or health or police checks,the vote....And gives away her people's political will....
The embargo started way before 1974 as you say,but there is a sting in its tail...True, between 1963 and 68 the GCs were responsible for the embargo.. But Makarios lifted it in 1968,the TCs were free to move around the island at will...But this time the TCs applied the embargo to their own people....In the areas controlled by the TCs,no TC were allowed to leave the enclaves unless there was a very special reason to do so...So between 1968 and 74 we were responsible for our own embargo....
And lets not forget the "From Turk to Turk" campaign which began in 1957,and forbade any TC from doing business with a GC...We have to be fair,Murataga,when we talk about embargoes,the knife cuts both ways...