Ziya Ozturkler, the north’s ‘interior minister’, has announced his intention to construct a ‘migration centre’, aimed at dealing with undocumented and irregular migration.
Ozturkler made the announcement after a meeting with Turkey’s deputy interior minister Yasin Ekrem Serim.
“To make the TRNC a safe and peaceful country, the fight against undocumented and irregular migration continues,” he said, explaining that the centre will be established to carry out inspections of students and labourers who arrive in the north.
In addition, he said that “foreign representatives” will be involved in the creation of the new centre, and that inspections will be “especially carried out for people coming from the Republic of Turkey and third countries”.