Practical Difficulties
As a Northern Cyprus passport is not recognised by most national governments (much like the republic itself), naturalised citizens have to resort to other nations' passports in order to travel internationally. (A few countries such as the UK, the USA, and Pakistan accept a Northern Cyprus passport). Actually many Turkish Cypriots who are born in Cyprus with parents who can trace their Cypriot and legal residence before the partition applied for and received a Cypriot passport from the recognised Republic of Cyprus. Because of the abandonment of the Republic of Cyprus by the Turkish Cypriot community since 1963, none of them choose to stand for election in elections of the Republic of Cyprus. Also, any citizen of Northern Cyprus (should they wish) is entitled to citizenship of Turkey and to receive a Turkish passport.
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