North’s population ‘590,000 excluding students and soldiers’

The north’s population is 590,000, excluding foreign students and Turkish soldiers , ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Tuesday night.

Speaking to Diyalog TV, he said the ruling coalition is working to create an “address-based census system” to record the north’s population, with that system said to be “80 per cent complete”.

Additionally, he said, “the number of foreign students registered with the migration department is clear”, while the number