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seem to be able to grow in line with whatever the treasury in Ankara determines,
regardless of Cypriot conditions and policies. To answer one of the questions raised in
the introduction, it seems that the north can not be studied as an independent economy,
but only as a part of the wider Turkish economy. Here this thesis has failed, though at
the outset, and judging by existing, limited literature, there was no way of knowing this
until the work was complete. To repeat comments made in the introduction; existing
literature on the economic development of Cyprus (as a whole), is extremely limited.
From the evidence and arguments presented above, the integration of the Turkish-
Cypriot economy into a wider Turkish economy, is a phenomenon that goes back to
the 1960s and the breakdown of the constitution in December 1963. While mainland
support for the Turkish-Cypriot community may have been critical in the 1960s, in
terms of self-sustaining development, its contribution has been more ambiguous since.
The logical extension of the argument here, is that the Turkification of the Turkish-
Cypriot economy has only been encouraged by consistent Greek-Cypriot policy dating
back to 1960.
Here, on both sides of the UN Buffer Zone, both communities have been given the
benefit of the doubt. Almost exclusively, in Chapters 1-5, it is their respective data and
their elite's dialogue that has written the story of the creation of two, noncommunicating
economies on the island of Cyprus. With both communities having
some perception of the cost of de facto division, Chapter 6 contrasts development in
Cyprus with certain objective criteria, to attempt a dynamic benchmark of those costs.
In many ways the story presented here has tended to suggest, seemingly conspiring to
support the Turkish-Cypriot case, that the economy as a whole (and, ironically,
particularly the Greek-Cypriot economy), was better off economically in the divided
reality. That evidence also tends to suggest that the Turkish-Cypriot community did
not maintain long term economic benefits from the political solution their leaders
sought. The continued widespread use of improvised public and quasi-public sector
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