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with multipurpose co-operatives, a form that particularly suited the economic
situation of the enclaved, dispersed and spatially segregated Turkish-Cypriot
community between 1964-74.
After 1959 and even 1963, there remained some bi-communal local and particularly
crop and production related co-operatives. Partly because of the population structure
and local communal divisions of labour, inter-communal co-operation continued in
areas spared the worst violence, being a necessary element of some local
économies. Again (arguably) reflecting the population structure, the controlling
share of bi-communal co-operatives was usually Greek Cypriot, meaning that they
would exclus ively use the Greek-Cypriot Co-operative Central Bank's clearing
facilities. Until 1974 Greek and Turkish-Cypriots shared such key sub-sectoral cooperatives
as: Wine, Tobacco and Carob (ail of which were the leading Cypriot
producers), ail were controlled by Greek-Cypriots. From 1963 to '74 there was
some collaboration between separate independent local Greek and Turkish-Cypriot
co-operatives in the purchasing of imports, such as fertilisers (to benefit from bulk
purchasing discounts) and between the CTCCB and Greek-Cypriot controlled
parastatals. This was to end with the massive upheavals of the summer of 1974.
With the ethnie ségrégation that followed, some of the Turkish-Cypriot refugees
from 1974 (well over half the Turkish-Cypriot population) brought their cooperatives
with them (for example the Turkish-Cypriot Limassol Co-operative Bank
still exists and is now a thriving Kyrenia based bank), some created new ones and
others joined existing Turkish-Cypriot co-operatives located in the north.
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