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econstruction also provided a means of labour pacification 79 and modernisation, at
once creating a more flexible labour market and a more sophisticated and
acquisitive urban demand structure. The population under the Turkish-Cypriot
leadership moved in the other direction, becoming more rural and agricultural as a
conséquence of de facto division. It is to determine the extent to which the Cypriot
economy, both Turkish and Greek-Cypriot, was able to exploit economic
opportunities that arose as a conséquence of political disasters, that this thesis
develops some largely implicit themes, as the Iogical conséquence of earlier
research.
There has been even less international research into Turkish-Cypriot economic
history. A further barrier discouraging greater understanding seems to be a lack of
objective interest. Of the few to tackle the région in any depth, Dodd 80 , Bicak 81 ,
Ioannides 82
do so exclusively. Ail can be clearly associated with the dominant
political présentation of the Turkish and Greek-Cypriot case. The name of the
région used by writers, usually détermines their respective position, whether
referred to as the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" or the "occupied area"
79 Results of which are in some way reflected in Figure 2.22. However, the political, and arguably
more important, pacification was the more literal one: the détermination to cease the Greek on Greek
violence which had been on an open civil-war footing since the beginning of the 1970's. Loizos
1981. op. cit., p. 137) alludes to another reason for the deliberate ségrégation of refugee
communities, this time as a lobbying body: "If, as seemed likely, whole areas of former Greek
residence remained in Turkish hands, then a club (lobbying organisation) based on such an area
might make itself felt in opposing...any particular settlement between Greek and Turkish Cypriots."
80 Dodd 1993. op. cit.
81 Bicak 1990. op.cit.
82 Ioannides C.P. 1991. In Turkev's Image: The Transformation of Occupied Cvprus into a Turkish
Province. New Rochelle, NY: Aristide D. Caratzas.
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