We would be shooting ourselves in the foot if the government keep restricting more students from abroad: TRNC politician

Turkish Cypriot politician, Serdar Denktash, the son of late Turkish Cypriot Leader, Rauf Denktash,has called on the government to rethink its stance to control the influx of students from third countries.

Serdar Denktash, made the comments last week during an interview with local media, Kibris Postasi TV as he criticized the government; saying the ‘government’ “has not done one good thing” during its time in office.

“I am waiting for the day I can compliment the government on doing one nice thing, but unfortunately that day has not been forthcoming,” Denktash said.

“They have not put forward a plan, a goal, a programme, and worst of all, they do not give the people any hope. There is a growing group of people who are angry at the government. I think the government must not be aware of these people, because otherwise we would have to conclude they are making them angry on purpose,” he added.

He accused the Ersin Tatar administration of alienating people from the state and Turkey.

Speaking on the economical difficulties faced by Turkish Cypriots, he said “our people are having to work two jobs just to be able to buy a house and a car and send their children to school.”

To this end, he urged the TRNC’s authorities to allow the numerous universities in the country to keep operating and keep accepting students from abroad.

“Efforts to cut off this source are extremely misguided in terms of the economy. We would be doing ourselves a great disservice if we tried to cut off a river of inward investment into our economy just because we cannot control the number of third country nationals entering the country,” he said.

“We would be shooting ourselves in the foot.”