Wrong democracy and wrong GDP !

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Aug 9, 2010 at 20:09

denise karr wrote :

>... northern cyprus is a democracy <

Have you ever seen a democracy without freedom of speech and with repressive laws against dissenting opinions ?

> and its people are pretty wealthy. gdp per capita is more than 20.000 US dollars.<

Where did you take the number from? It is roughly valid for Free Cyprus [ $21,200 for 2009 est. ] while the GDP per capita of the Turkish-occupied part of it is $13,253 (2009) and results to a large extent from c. $ 400 000 000 shipped every year from Ankara. Without the Turkish alms the economy of Northern Cyprus would have collapsed a long time ago.

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