The Problem of the Turkish Immigrants in TRNC in the Light of International Law

ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the presence of Turkish immigrants in North Cyprus and the ways this issue needs to be solved in light of international law. The aim of this thesis is to investigate all different arguments about the Turkish immigrants and to analyze them. The most important one among many different research questions of this thesis is ―in the future plan, what will be the legal status of the Turkish immigrants in Cyprus? What are and what will be their rights in this European land? The issue of Turkish immigrants is a complicated one, therefore, I will try to find answers among contrasting ideas. Hence, I will try to obtain the correct number of Turkish immigrants, their objectives, motivations and effects of their existence in the island on politics in the TRNC. In addition, this research will examine different examples in the world in which settlement problems were attempted to be solved, and in the light of this information, I will shed light on the issue of Turkish immigrants for ongoing negotiations and make some predictions about how this problem might be solved. Keywords: Turkish immigrants, Cyprus problem, international law, TRNC. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………