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Famagusta enclaves would be over-run before significant numbers of Turkish
Troops could reach them), Turkish-Cypriot administrators were instructed to burn
specific documents before leaving their civil ian posts to take up military duties.
Administrators possessed a list of documents which were to be destroyed during
military emergencies; economic data was amongst them 5 . In the aftermath of 1974,
security concerns were dominant and economic statistics were either not gathered or
not published. Interviews, investigative research and further trawling of secondary
literature in other fields, attempt to fill these gaps. The recent and controversial
nature of the establishment of the "TRNC" means that gathering data is sometimes
slow, though satisfaction arises from providing a more accessible and clearer picture
of the formation of a separate Turkish-Cypriot economy.
The data viewed and information gleaned from primary sources provides the basis
for an introductory analysis of the development of a Turkish-Cypriot economy 6 . No
published work has so far attempted to construct a coherent analysis of its
development. The narrative form taken in this chapter makes a contribution to
knowledge if it stimulâtes further interest, leading to the discovery of new archives
which may disprove tentative conclusions reached here. Unfortunately those
archives, if they exist, were not available to this writer. The limited Statistical
analysis provides some data revealing the difficulties associated with transitional
économies at both a practical and theoretical level.
5 This information dérivés from a sériés of interviews with Ozalp Sarica, carried out in his office, at
the EMU, on the following days 17/3/95, 21/3/95, 24/3/95. Ozalp Sarica was the first Assistant
Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus, employment he left on 23 December 1963 along with the
rest of the Turkish Cypriot community. Since then he has held senior positions in the various Turkish
Cypriot "administrations" and key economic institutions that helped to create and maintain a separate
Turkish Cypriot economy. From 1964 to 1968 he was the Director General of Evkaf (the second
largest landowner in Cyprus). He became the first Director General of the "State" Planning
Organisation when it was founded by the provisional administration in 1968. While there, he set up a
company called Eti, which he fronted from 1972, with the aim of opening and increasing economic
links with "mainland" Turkey.
6 Where possible information provided in interviews has been cross-referenced with independent
sources, contemporary newspapers, the UN (and former serving UN officers - Patrick 1976. op.
cit.,) and other independent secondary sources.
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