Girne American University Teaching Staff and columnist of International Politics Academy and Gündem Kıbrıs; Ali Üncü has conducted a research reinforced by questionnaires under International Relations Post-Graduate Program to take the pulse of the public pre-elections in regards to North Cyprus politics and politicians.

The analysis of the research that titled as “Reliability and Recognition of Turkish Cypriot Politics and Politicians” held amongst 200 random samples from all over TRNC have been evaluated.

As hypothesis Üncü stated that “TRNC politics is not reliable and as well only little number of politicians is mostly recognized by the community”.

Unreliability has been proven scientifically.

Accordingly to the results it has been evaluated that 71 % of the samples have marked “low” or “very low” for the question related to reliability of TRNC politics. Despite this most participants have off the record stated they would have had marked “never” if there was such a choice.



The vast ratio research which had been held in all regions as Famagusta, Kyrenia, Nicosia and Morphou has also produced evaluations that institutions like National Security Command, Civil Defence, Police and Parliament are found less reliable as “none” was marked 93 times by 200 correspondents which equals to 46.5 % of the total while Parliament gains the minimal ratio of 4 % of reliability as total.



No faith in settlement...

The results are somehow interesting and expected. From 200 correspondent 100, meaning 50%, have stated that the possibility of peaceful settlement in Cyprus for the next 3 years is “very low” and as before stated they claimed that if there was a chance for them to choose

“None” they would have had. Those whom also stated that the possibility is “low” were also 16.5% and this cumulates to 65.5 % of “low” and “very low” possibility of peaceful settlement in Cyprus for the next 3 years. This is nearly and even more the percentage of “YES” vote from those same Cypriot Turkish people whom have accepted the Cyprus Annan Plan in 2004.  Only 6.5 % of the correspondent marked “high” and 9 % have marked “very high” possibility of peaceful settlement in Cyprus for the next 3 years; this in total cumulates to 15.5 % which merely the same number that voted “NO” for the Annan Plan from Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

North Cyprus does seek Settlement...



55% of the correspondents do favour interaction with Greek Cypriots in means of “Economy”, “Culture” and “Language Learning”. This can be a reference to a will for a peaceful federation based settlement. 

Those correspondents whom favoured no relations with Greek Cypriots showed a frequency of 30 % in total.

Üncü finally emphasizing that the possible coalition government are ought to monitor such scientific variables in order to provide efficient public service to the community. For further detail on the research please see: http://politikaakademisi.org/reliability-and-recognition-of-turkish-cypriot-politics-politicians/