“In 2008, when the Greek part of the island adopted the euro, the Turkish inhabitants of the northern part of the island felt duped. And, of course, this makes their schadenfreude regarding the southern part’s current economic woes all the greater. ‘With the referendum, the Greeks left us out in the cold. They wanted to profit from the euro by themselves,’ says Efem Okiran, who runs a flower store in Gemikonagi. But now his neighbors can see what good that’s done for them — and where they’ve ended up. ‘For 10 years, they made money thanks to the EU,’ Okiran adds. ‘And now they’re supposed to bleed for 10 years.'”
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