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[Expatkiwi]

in the next few years we gonna have to negotiate with the settlers...as they are the majority...just promise them EU passports and watch them switch sides as they will look after their own interests and not the bullshit from the tcs...

Are you saying we should give them an ROC passport and watch them flee abroad? I hadn't thought of that one. Bloody good strategy. And much cheaper than paying them to go back to Turkey. I think you're on to something...

I think you may have an idea here. The Settlers brought into the TRNC come from Anatolia, which is a rather poor region of Turkey. They go to the TRNC primarilly in search of a better life. Show them an incentive such as this and most probably a lot of them would take it up.

[Tim Drayton]

in the next few years we gonna have to negotiate with the settlers...as they are the majority...just promise them EU passports and watch them switch sides as they will look after their own interests and not the bullshit from the tcs...

Are you saying we should give them an ROC passport and watch them flee abroad? I hadn't thought of that one. Bloody good strategy. And much cheaper than paying them to go back to Turkey. I think you're on to something...

I think you may have an idea here. The Settlers brought into the TRNC come from Anatolia, which is a rather poor region of Turkey. They go to the TRNC primarilly in search of a better life. Show them an incentive such as this and most probably a lot of them would take it up.

Your pen friend is obvıously not doing a very good job of laying down the line to you. When you have time, ask him to translate and explain the meaning of the sentence:

"Giden de Türk, gelen de Türk."

[Me Ed]

in the next few years we gonna have to negotiate with the settlers...as they are the majority...just promise them EU passports and watch them switch sides as they will look after their own interests and not the bullshit from the tcs...

Are you saying we should give them an ROC passport and watch them flee abroad? I hadn't thought of that one. Bloody good strategy. And much cheaper than paying them to go back to Turkey. I think you're on to something...

I think you may have an idea here. The Settlers brought into the TRNC come from Anatolia, which is a rather poor region of Turkey. They go to the TRNC primarilly in search of a better life. Show them an incentive such as this and most probably a lot of them would take it up.

Most of those loosers will probably end up going to the RoC if that were to happen.

Does the RoC really want these 200,000 poorly educated Turks flooding the RoC, only for Turkey to import anothe 200,000 up north?

The RoC is not that dumb.

[Nikitas]

There is always the British trick with the "overseas British national" status. If you are not recognised as "patrial" you do not have a right of residence in Britain despite your British nationality. It was the manner the British invented to keep out the Ugandan Asian holders of British passports.

Because it was done by a "first world" country it set a precedent in international law which can be used by others. RoC could grant passports to anyone and deprive them of the right to reside in RoC, ala Britain, and unleash them on the EU.

What do they call bullshit like that in international diplomatic language? Recognising the new realities........