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path, policy objectives moved to concentrate more on economic growth, which
simultaneously helped to legitimise the new status quo. For as much as economic
objectives coincided with the process of ethnie séparation, and did not sacrifice the
security and the politicai integrity of the ethnically segregated, developmental
objectives became important goals for the Turkish-Cypriot leadership. Economic
growth, full-employment, establishing the economic viability of a wide and general
settlement over the new (and large) région under Turkish control, establishing and
diversifying trading links for its produce, were some of the key fundamental
objectives.
Turkish military intervention brought with it the possibility of establishing
something more of a functioning economy for the Turkish-Cypriot community.
Before 1974, the separate Turkish-Cypriot economy was more a collection of
refugee camps, a combination of the force of circumstances and politicai gesture 63 .
Undoubtedly, the fact that violence periodically flared, retarded
economic
development, making security considérations paramount in the community's choice
of polices. The Turkish-Cypriot leadership nevertheless seemed to carry out
something of an all or nothing approach (they would argue, of necessity) to its
politicai ambitions, encouraging (and even enforcing) continued séparation when
such a route meant more and continued economic hardship for much of the enclaved
community 64 . So for various reasons, some of them relating to internai politics, the
Turkish-Cypriot community did not recover from the fighting of 1963/4 until after
the fighting of 1974 which solved the Turkish-Cypriot leadership's politicai
ambitions. Therefore any examination of recovery programmes must begin after
1974.
63 Patrick 1976. op. cit. , pp. 158.
64 Field Marshall Lord Carver. "Peacekeeping in Cyprus. " in Koumoulides, John T.A. (ed.) 1986.
Cvprus in Transition 1960-1985. London: Trigraph, p.31.
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