Administration and Dependence in a de facto State: the Ambivalence of the statization in Northern Cyprus

This paper proposes an ethnographic study of Turkish Cypriots' dynamics of attachment towards their administration, in the context of an unrecognized de facto State dependent upon Turkey since Cyprus' partition in 1974. On the basis of several fieldworks conducted between 2012 and 2014 and through an approach of political anthropology, it studies the affects generated by the ``Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus'' on its public agents and citizens. It shows that the diplomatic and economic isolation reinforces their dependence and loyalty towards their administration. But it also generates malaise and chronic dissatisfaction on citizens entirely conscious of the limits of the self-proclaimed sovereignty of their political entity.