DATA ON CYPRUS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 14, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE DIRECTOR OF
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Council
MEMO FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Milton Kovner
National Intelligence Officer for
Western Europe
SUBJECT: Data on Cyprus
1. You asked yesterday for some published
data on Cyprus. I hope the attached will meet
your needs. If not, please let me know.
2. We are in the process of producing a
national estimate on Cyprus, and I will keep you
apprised of its progress.
Attachment
Cyprus Data (U)
OGI 84-10003 (S/NF)
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Communications
Railroads: 14,725 km total, government
owned; 5,070 km common-carrier lines of
which 4,990 km standard gauge (1.435 m), 80
km 0.914-meter gauge; about 9,655 km
plantation/industrial lines, 6,455 km stand-
ard gauge (1.435 m), 3,200 km narrow gauge
Highways: 21,000 km total; 9,000 km paved,
12,000 km gravel and earth surfaced
Inland waterways: 240 km
Pipelines: natural gas, 80 km
Ports: 8 major (including US Naval Base at
Guantanamo), 44 minor
Civil air: 48 major transport aircraft, includ-
ing 2 leased in
Airfields: 204 total, 197 usable; 58 with
permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways
over 3,659 m, 8 with runways 2,440-3,659 m,
23 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Defense Forces
Branches: Revolutionary Armed Forces,
Ground Forces, Revolutionary Navy, Air and
Air Defense Force; Ministry of Interior-
Special Troops, Border Guard Troops, De-
partment of State Security (DSE)
Military manpower: eligible 15-49,
5,288,000; of the 2,674,000 males 15-49,
1,683,000 are fit for military service; 129,000
males and 112,000 females reach military
age (17) annually
Military budget: for fiscal year ending 31
December 1981, $1.112 billion; about 7.5% of
total budget
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Cyprus
Land
9,251 km'; 47% arable (including permanent
crop); 25% waste, urban areas, and other; 18%
forest; 10% meadow and pasture
Water
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 12 nm
People
Population: 653,000 (July 1983), average an-
nual growth rate 1.3%
Nationality: noun-Cypriot(s); adjective-
Cypriot
Ethnic divisions: 78% Greek; 18% Turkish;
4% Armenian, Maronite, and other
Religion: 78% Creek Orthodox; 18% Muslim;
4% Maronite, Armenian, Apostolic, and other
Greek Sector labor force: 180,700(1980), 42%
services; 33% industry; 25% agriculture; 2.1%
unemployed
Government
Official name: Republic of Cyprus
Type: republic; a disaggregation of the two
ethnic communities inhabiting the island be-
gan after the outbreak of communal strife in
following the Turkish invasion of the is
in July 1974, which gave the Turkish C
percent of the republic; Greek Cypriots
trol the only internationally recognized
government; negotiations between the Cii
and Turkist Cypriots aim at finding a mu
differences based on a federal system of
ernment
Legal system: based on common law, with
the basis for a new or revised constitution.
Greek and Turkish Cypriots have been hel
intermittently
Branches: currently the Government of Cy
Greek Cypriot community, as provided fo
by constitution; headed by President of the
ters, House of Representatives, and Suprem
"constitution" and governing bodies within:
the "Turkish Federated State of Cyprus" In
islative Assembly")
Government leaders: Spyros KYPRIANOU;
President; Turkish Sector: Rauf DENK-
TASH, "President"
Elections: officially every five years (last
presidential election held in February 1983},
parliamentary elections held in May 1981;
Turkish Cypriot "presidential" and "par-
liamentary" elections held in June 1981
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political parties and leaders: Creek Sector:
Economy
Turkish Sector budget: (1980 prelim.) reve-
Progressive Party of the Working People
GNP: $2,075 million (1981), $4,228 per cap-
nues $34.7 million, expenditures $55.4
(AKEL; Communist Party), Ezekias
ita; 1981 est. real growth rate 1.4%
million, deficit $20.7 million
Papaioannou; Democratic Rally (DS),
Clafkos Clerides; Democratic Party (DK),
Turkish Sector GNP: $225 million (1980),
Monetary conversion rate: 1.9984 Cyprus
Spyros Kyprianou; United Democratic
$1,497 per capita
pounds=US$1 (23 February 1983)
Union of the Center (EDEK), Vassos
Lyssarides; New Democratic Movement
Agriculture: main crops-potatoes, grapes,
Turkish Sector monetary conversion rate:
(NDP), Alecos Michaelides; New Union of
citrus fruit, grains; 3,054 calories and 92.8
111.22 Turkish lira=US$1 (1981 average)
the Center (EK), Tassos Papadopoulos; Pan-
grams protein per day per capita (1977)
Cyprian Renewal Party (FAME),
Khrysostomos Sofianos; Turkish Sector: Na-
Major industries: mining (iron pyrites, gyp-
tional Unity Party (UBP), Mustafa Cagatay;
sum, asbestos), manufactures principally for
Communications
Communal Liberation Party (TKP), Alpay
local consumption-beverages, footwear,
Railroads: none
Durduran; Republican Turkish Party (CTP),
clothing, cement
Ozker Ozgur; Democratic People's Party
Highways: 9,710 km total; 4,580 km bitumi-
(DHP), Neiat Konuk; other minor parties
Electric power: 500,000 kW capacity (1982);
nous surface treated; 5,130 km gravel,
1.1 billion kWh produced (1982), 1,700 kWh
crushed stone, and earth
Voting strength: (1981 elections) in the par-
per capita
liamentary election pro-Western
Ports: 3 major (Famagusta, Larnaca,
Democratic Rally and Communist AKEL
Exports: $566.3?million-(f.o:b.,-1981); princi-
- ?--?Limassol), 6?minor; Famagusta under Turk-
each received 12 of the 35 seats; Kyprianou's
pal items-food and beverages, including
ish Cypriot control
center-right Democratic Party received
citrus, raisins, potatoes and wine; also cement
eight seats; and socialist EDEK won three
and clothing
seats; in "presidential" and "parliamentary"
elections in the Turkish Cypriot sector, Rauf
Turkish Sector exports: $45.9 million (f.o.b.,
Airfields: 13 total, 12 usable; 8 with
Denktash won with 52 percent of the vote; his
1980} principal items-citrus fruits, pota-
permanent-surface runways. 5 with runways
party (UBP) has 18 of 40 seats in the "Assem-
toes, metal pipes, and pyrites
1,220-2,439 m; 2 with runways 2,440-
bly," while the center-left TKP has 12 seats
3,656 m
and the CTP has 6 seats; the remainder are
Imports: $1,166.6 million (c.i.f., 1981); prin-
divided among the other parties
cipal items-manufactured goods,
Telecommunications: moderately good tele-
machinery and transport equipment, fuels,
communication system in both Greek and
Communists: 17,000; sympathizers esti-
food
Turkish sectors, 113,400 telephones (17.9 per
mated to number 75,000
100 popl.); 10 AM. 4 FM, and 27 TV stations;
Turkish Sector imports: $102.5 million (e. i. f.,
tropospheric scatter circuits to Greece and
Other political or pressure groups: United
1980); principal items-foodstuffs, raw ma-
Turkey; 3 submarine coaxial cables; 1 Atlan-
Democratic Youth Organization (EDON;
terials, fuels, machinery
tic Ocean satellite station
Communist controlled); Union of Cyprus
Farmers (EKA; Communist controlled); Cy-
Major trade partners: imports (1981)-
Defense Forces
prus Farmers Union (PEK; pro-West); Pan-
14.2% UK, 9.7% Italy, 7.8% Greece, 7.2%
Branches: Cyprus National Guard
Cyprian Labor Federation (PEO; Commu-
FRG; exports (1981)-18.8% UK, 9.7%
nist controlled); Confederation of Cypriot
Libya, 8.4% Saudi Arabia, 6.4% Iraq, 6.4%
Military manpower: males 15-49, 174,000;
Workers (SEK; pro-West); Federation of
Lebanon
123,000 fit for military service; about 5,000
Turkish Cypriot Labor Unions (Turk-Sen);
reach military age (18) annually
Confederation of Revolutionary Labor
Turkish Sector major trade partners: im-
Unions (Dev-ls)
ports (1979)-43% Turkey, 21.2% UK, 7%
Military budget: for fiscal year ending 31
Italy, 6.6% FRG, 2.7% France; exports
December 1981. $57.7 million; about 14.8%
Member of. Commonwealth. Council of Eu-
(1979)-66.4% UK, 21% Turkey, 3.7% FRG
of central government budget
rope, FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD,
ICAO, ICO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMCO,
Budget: (1981 est.) revenues $488.7 million,
IMF, INTELSAT, ISCON, ITU, NAM, UN,
expenditures $587.9 million, deficit $99.1
UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO,
million
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