Turkish daily Hurriyet newspaper (26.10.12) reports that the settlers who went to the occupied area of Cyprus after the Turkish invasion after 1974, have now children and grandchildren and notes that the number has reached 40 thousand.
The paper notes that these settlers mainlywho arrived in the 1980s, seeking jobs and that they are originated mostly from Hatay (Alexandretta), Mersin and Adana. Those settlers, who are now around 40 thousand stayed in the breakaway regime and started families.
In statements to Hurriyet, the chairman of the Hatay Origins Association, Bertan Zaroglu, said that the settlers live mostly in occupied Lefkosia, in the area inside the walls. He also expressed many complains about the “unjust way” that the breakaway regime treats these settlers, alleging that they are not considered to have equal “TRNC rights” with the Turkish Cypriots.
Cyprus News Agency
