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CHAPTER 3. The foundations of Takism; The development of a
separate Turkish-Cypriot political economy.
Introduction
This chapter looks at the internal political, practical and institutional developments
that led up to de facto division in Cyprus along ethnic and regional lines. Most of
what follows is derived from a series of interviews with significant players
(footnoted below). In the absence of other records, their recollections, crossreferenced
where possible with contemporary independent reports, provide useful
and largely unreported background and detail to the clinically, statistically biased
economic consequences of war and ethnic division described elsewhere in the thesis.
In this and the following chapter, the object is to map the development of a separate
Turkish-Cypriot economy, from the largely subsistence and aid dependent enclaves
of the 1960's to the creation of their own multi-national in the 1980's. Here, the
significant developments that preceded the coup and invasion are the main concern.
In Chapter 4, the developments which led up to the creation of the region's own
multi-national enterprise, will be examined.
At one level, the diplomatic conventions which determine syntax and grammatical
style 1 , when referring to northern Cyprus, can easily be confused with bias, simply
^ven in the 1960's "because of the nature of the Cyprus conflict, and because UNFICYP had to
remain impartial, it could not, for example, use the phrase 'Turkish Cypriot Government' in reports
or during negotiations. UNFICYP therefore drew up a list of terms to be used when referring to
Turkish Cypriot officials, e.g.: Turkish Cypriot Leadership...Turkish Cypriot Police Element..."
Patrick R. A. 1976. A Political Geography of the Cyprus Conflict: 1963-1971. Ontario: University of
Waterloo, Dept. of Geography Publication Series, No. 4, p. 99, footnote 70.
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