"North says it has 30,000 legal Turkish workers
By Simon Bahceli
NORTH Cyprus is no longer an inn that anyone can simply wander into unregistered, Turkish Cypriot ‘interior minister’ Ozkan Murat claimed yesterday.
His comment came after he confirmed that the north now played host to around 30,000 workers from Turkey, nearly all of whom were registered with the authorities. The high number of registrations, Murat said, reflected the success of a clampdown on illegal immigration and unregistered employment that began with a change in the law at the beginning of the year.
“A tangible transformation has taken place in the country. It is not simply a change in the law that has occurred; we have seen the implementation of a major reform,” Murat said.
The actual clampdown began in April this year when the authorities began carrying out inspections on homes and workplaces to warn illegal immigrants that if they did not register with the authorities by July 1, they would face financial penalties and possible deportation."
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