Thats a lorra lorra lira.

[dodger]

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/tcpr/201 ... pr.html#04

Would the locals welcome this sort of investment in Northern Cyprus.The article mentions a second Dubai.Cant seee that going down well with the people that actually live in the North.But would love too see your responses.

Paul.

p.s. thanks Marion.

[Marions]

If Europe won't recognise us, then maybe we should accept whatevewr recognitioon we can get, especially if it helps the economy. Unless of course there is a political price to pay that is NOT in the interests of Northenr Cyprus and the locals. Would it change the identity of the place for the better or worse. What do others think?

[Groucho]

Don't you just love the the way the HR Net do their reporting, referring to all political appointees as 'self-styled' and the north as the 'occupied areas' at every opportunity... it makes for such interesting reading.

[zarafet]

Groucho if they didn't put them in, in every sentence, the article would be very short. Maybe, they should go and enrol ifor a degree in journalism at the new 'illegal' uni.

[andre514]

just as there was a cottage industry on "cyprus 44" apparently devoted
to a settlement of the cyprus dispute coming closer (tho' it never did)

...so the hobby of contrasting those noble tc's to rapacious mainlanders
is rearing it's chivalrous head on this newer forum

reality check please:

firstly in any world league table of the culturally threatened the tc
case is not one of the most pressing by any means

secondly the whole embroglio of tc's "versus" mainlanders sits most
oddly when coming from the mouths of expatriats since with the realities
of power on the island however sad it may be, the tc's cannot expect to
get the province back from turkey's grip, any more than "disposessed"
gc's will ever get back what was gambled away in their name

thirdly beware those twee innocent-sounding tags that mask the usual
club-med mangling of objectivity eg cyprob, international opinion etc

fourthly the term tc is not as clear-cut as some would have us believe
...think mixed marriages, children of: and generations of "mainlanders"
who were actually born on cyprus

and lastly, well, like most I have had my earoles bent by tc's muttering
about turkey, but is this a revolutionary groundswell or simply having a
good old bitch about something for which all other aternatives come
bundled with a host of very difficult problems of their own?

as always, I can offer no "answers" only pose some relevant questions

[Mel7348]

South Korean businessmen will reportedly invest 3 billion dollars in the occupied area of Cyprus

Would not mind betting that when said businessmen have completed feasability studies will run a mile.

andre514 - your reality check contains complexities both cultural and political that I doubt I can ever fully understand, though keep trying.

Until the government grant ExPats citizenship we are fully entitled to an opinion but without influence.

The mind boggles at the thought of a second Dubai, where they are currently making stock brokers redundant and property prices not what they were.

Yes thats a hell of a lorra lira if it ever sees the light of day.

[kaiserphil]

Mel - want to bet that if it ever arrives, they will keep mysteriously "running out" of it?
I think you are right, the Koreans will soon do a runner.

[andre514]

mel,

reading through my last posting I find it hard to understand:
...and I wrote it!

seriously,
the problem of ex-pats and heaven forbid, gc "sympathisers"
and unthinking soul mates trying to counterpose turkey/tc's
locked in a titanic fight reminiscent of king kong v godzilla*
has all the signs of desperation however "used" the islanders
nonetheless feel (including your own struggle for citizenship)

this use or misuse extends to foreign projects like the one
featured in this thread

sailing high above the fray were the gc "I told you so and so's
who until their recent financial undoing could play the role of
an ultimate injured party

* toho studios, 1962

[dodger]

Unfortunateley peeps.If Korea do want to pump zillions into North Cyprus there is bugger all any of us can do about it.Money talks.The lure of the dollar reings supreme.Look at the amounts that are being poured into the Iskele area.

Paul.

[andre514]

dodger,

"there is bugger all any of us can do about it"

...perhaps that's what I was really trying to say
but you put it far more concisely

interesting to hear from ian crumpy on the issue
or is it "goodbye mr chips"?

andre

[dodger]

Cheers Andre.

It must be my Yorkshire brashness.

Paul.

[ham on brown]

Forgive my ignorance but what's going on in Iskele area??:)

[andre514]

the citical word is "want"

the fact that these business guides want to do something
ie tap into an unexplored market with links to emergent turkey
doesn't actually mean they will or can or may be able to

north cyprus nonetheless has great potential

that is the reason for all these inverted commas around key
words in the original article

they act as a defensive shield