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[bill cobbett]

Now wonder why the Illegal Regime has postponed the count?

What are they trying to hide? ... and more importantly from whom?

[humanist]

Lots they are hiding lots

[bill cobbett]

Lots they are hiding lots

Who are they hiding the figures from file?

[Get Real!]

Population census in north Cyprus postponed...

http://famagusta-gazette.com/population ... 321-69.htm

They wouldn’t want to reveal that there’s no “Turkish Cypriots” left!

[Nikitas]

My suspcion, based on what people who visit the north say, is that they do not have the numbers they claim and need inorder to support their plan to hold on to all the territory they now hold.

Everyone who has been to the north reports on how many villages lie abandoned and most of the others seem underinhabited. Something is not right in the numbers. When 200 000 GCs lived in the north the place was teeming with people. How can it look empty now when they say more than 200 000, some even put the number at 500 000 people, live there? Are they all crammed into Nicosia and Kyrenia?

Something is definitely fishy.

[Paphitis]

My suspcion, based on what people who visit the north say, is that they do not have the numbers they claim and need inorder to support their plan to hold on to all the territory they now hold.

Everyone who has been to the north reports on how many villages lie abandoned and most of the others seem underinhabited. Something is not right in the numbers. When 200 000 GCs lived in the north the place was teeming with people. How can it look empty now when they say more than 200 000, some even put the number at 500 000 people, live there? Are they all crammed into Nicosia and Kyrenia?

Something is definitely fishy.

Yes very true Nikitas.

It is difficult to comprehend that there could be anywhere near 500,000 in the "trnc". It would more like be less than half, but I think the reason why the census might be postponed is that it might indicate few TCs left and that will undermine them in the negotiations. Imagine if there are less than 50,000 left and what this will mean.

[Jerry]

My suspcion, based on what people who visit the north say, is that they do not have the numbers they claim and need inorder to support their plan to hold on to all the territory they now hold.

Everyone who has been to the north reports on how many villages lie abandoned and most of the others seem underinhabited. Something is not right in the numbers. When 200 000 GCs lived in the north the place was teeming with people. How can it look empty now when they say more than 200 000, some even put the number at 500 000 people, live there? Are they all crammed into Nicosia and Kyrenia?

Something is definitely fishy.

Yes very true Nikitas.

It is difficult to comprehend that there could be anywhere near 500,000 in the "trnc". It would more like be less than half, but I think the reason why the census might be postponed is that it might indicate few TCs left and that will undermine them in the negotiations. Imagine if there are less than 50,000 left and what this will mean.

No you've got it all wrong chaps. The Reason the north appears deserted is because they have all taken up the British obsession of shopping. At any given time at least three quarters of the population of the "trnc" is to be found here living it up at this new leisure, shopping and business centre. It's the marvel of the north, with modern successful projects like this the "trnc" is really going places.

http://www.bigoldbazaar.net/costomers.php

Costomers? What a load of BOLLOCKS!

[bill cobbett]

Yes, the population figures that are produced by the Occupation Regime do smell of a lot of pollocks.

If they were to believed, along with their claims and threats over the years of 00,000s of anatolians being granted "citizenship" etc, the population of the Occupied Areas would be about the same as Belgium's!!!

Let's not forget the Golden Rule of anything that is produced by Turkey's Regime... Don't believe a word!... and further turn the whole thing on its head through 180 degrees to get nearer the truth.

Anyway, in a perfect world it would be the preserve of the Republic and the Republic alone to produce the figures and it can probably give us a handle on a ball-park figure by collating such things as the numbers of CYs living under the Turkish Occupation who have IDs and passports of the Republic, those who have crossed for medical treatment, those who cross every day for their work, together with their spouses and those born in CY who have applied for the birth certificates of the Republic.

[humanist]

NIkitas in 2007 I went to the occupied area of Cyprus. Xeros was my grandmothers village and the place I went home too after hospital with mum and dad. I lived there till the age of five. A year prior to the invasion in 74. I went back to the village. It was fairly populated there. Prior to going there I went to buy a pair of shoes and the old man that was selling me the shoes asked me where I was from I told him I am Cypriot who now lives in australia. He asked me where i came from in Cyprus and told him my story. He told me that he had gone there because he was from near by and that the village was settled by TC refugees from the free areas. However there was an army base there and there were lots of Turkish army personnel also. It looked busy and the maintained the homes my grandmothers home was well kept as was her sisters across the road and indeed the neighbourhood. Our home was part of the army barracks we didn't get to see it.

Kyrenia was very very busy. Infact it was so busy with so many Turks and their stupid flags that my anxiety sky rocketed to the point where I said to my parents and our TC friend that I needed to get out of their. Flashes of war.

Along the road to Apostolos Andreas most villages were settled. There are people there but mostly settlers and that was the discussion we had with our friend who came with us to Apostolos Andreas, who also organised the car for us to travel around, well get to the monastery and then to the village.