by Nikitas » Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:36 pm
"All one million of them" is becoming more and more like an urban myth, reproduced unthinkingly both by TCs, GCs and even the mainland Greek media.
I posted maps in another thread showing Cyprus at night, taken by NASA (in case you think it is a GC ploy) and also linked to a map of built up areas on the island. It is obvious from both maps that the south has more evident signs of habitation than the north, and the south contains, we are told, just over 800 000 people. So where are the 1000 000 in the north hiding? How come they do not light up the place at night, nor show any signs of buildings able to house this famous one million people?
Understandably there is a self serving motive in cultivating sumours of overpopulation by settlers in the north, but the material evidence does not bear out the rumour. And anyone who has been to the Turkish Aegean coastline can see that the employment opportunities there dwarf any prospects the TRNC might have to offer younger people.