IS IT REALLY THAT SIMPLE FOR PEOPLE GETTING OFF THE PLANE TO VANISH AT THE AIRPORT?

Things have spiralled out of control in this country; everything is in disarray, nothing is under control. Unbelievable things are happening constantly.

It is well known that ‘human trafficking’ exists in our country. They have even involved state departments and institutions in this business; the names of high-ranking public officials are associated with human trafficking. It is also evident that there is a major fight in the country over the issue of human trafficking.

Many people believe that “human trafficking cannot happen by air, as the checks and controls there are impenetrable.” Since there too many examples of it, ‘human trafficking by sea’ is etched in people’s minds… We have also seen that people who were supposedly brought to our country for work purposes have been used as baits for human trafficking… Everyone knows that people are being smuggled illegally into Southern Cyprus by land… You know, you read the news, you follow court reports from time to time, or you hear about it somehow… Does it surprise you that influential officials are involved in human trafficking, where large sums of money are involved? I suppose it doesn’t…

We understand all of this; no one is unaware of it, but what surprises many people is that people arriving in the country by air are being brought in without any kind of registration…

It’s a truly dreadful situation… Can you imagine: between May, June and July 2025, a total of 52 Afghan nationals were allowed to enter the country without registration through nine different flights at Ercan Airport…

Although I am no longer surprised by anything in this country, how is it possible that even though the number of people on the arriving flight is known, some of them disappear after the plane lands? Doesn’t the immigration department check this? Doesn’t anyone say, “There were this many people on this flight, but this many are missing”?

This happened not once or twice, but nine times, and 52 Afghan nationals somehow vanished at the airport and entered the country.

These 52 people were allowed to enter the country without going through the immigration department. The Afghans were picked up at the airport and dropped off at different locations in Nicosia.

The people brought into the country without registration are Afghans, and the three people alleged to have facilitated their illegal entry are Pakistani… There is also an immigration official who brought them into the country without registering them… A total of four people have been arrested…

A thousand questions come to mind. Is one civil servant doing all this work? When a civil servant brings large numbers of people into the country without registering them, does no one notice?

How do the Afghans who get off the plane and enter the building suddenly become invisible?

Who checks the number of people on the plane and the number of people entering the country, and who verifies this? Who should notice that the Afghans are missing from the equation and that the number has gone down?

Isn’t the civil servant who has allegedly brought Afghans into the country without registering them and who has been arrested being inspected? Are there no higher authorities supervising him and others like him? Is an official at Ercan so free and unsupervised that he can do whatever he wants?

Did the other officials at Ercan not see these Afghans? Did no one suspect anything? Didn’t the cameras capture anything?

Didn’t the people who picked up these Afghans from Ercan, put them in cars and transported them to Nicosia attract anyone’s attention? Didn’t anyone suspect anything? Can human trafficking by air be carried out so easily?

Besides, is this kind of human trafficking limited to Afghans? Have other people been brought into the country on other occasions? Who knows, maybe this has been going on for years? If people can be brought into the country so easily without being registered, shouldn’t the past be investigated and scrutinised?

If this incident had not been reported to the police, would the human trafficking continue? Was the incident reported to the police because of a disagreement, a problem in sharing the money?

Is it really three Pakistanis and a TRNC official who are organising this? Are there no others helping them, turning a blind eye? Could this be facilitated by a large network of human trafficking?

They are bringing people into the country without chrecking who they are, without caring about their past, without questioning them. For example, have these people been involved in any criminal incidents? Are they thieves, murderers, terrorists? Does any of this matter? What kind of a conscience would commit such an evil act in the country for money? Don’t get me wrong, even if these people are completely innocent and their only goal is to go to Southern Cyprus, this situation is unforgivable. The establishment of human trafficking gangs in this country, with public officials also involved, is a horrendous situation.

The problem is that there is severe corruption in the country… Public institutions and public officials are often involved in illegal activities. Everyone thinks they can do whatever they want and constantly draw power from the authorities.

Many people do not consider the consequences of their actions and do not hesitate to engage in illegal activities. They are not afraid of pocketing the money they do not deserve and that is not legally obtained; bribery is everywhere… Unjust, illicit enrichment is seen as a right. In a place where the perpetrators get away with it and those who engage in illegal activities are protected, it is futile to expect morality, ethics, or fear of arrest.

 In a system where the perpetrator ‘gets away with it’, in a judicial environment where cases take 8-10 years to be resolved, the unashamed are not afraid of being arrested, brought to court, or even serving a short sentence. They consider what they have acquired until their detention as a gain… This is what real corruption looks like…

In an environment where high-level public officials, police officers, soldiers, members of parliament, and party executive committee chairmen do not hesitate to obtain fake diplomas, and even defend doing so, and where the country’s leaders go out of their way to protect them, all kinds of corruption and irregularities may occur.

This is why we react to the country’s leaders. The days that the citizens rebel against in the sentence, ‘Did we fight for our existence to see these days?’, are precisely ‘these days’ of corruption, irregularities and decay.

You can spout as much nonsense as you like; you can say, “We did this, we did that, we flew, we achieved great successes,” but what good is it after the country has succumbed to decay?

You went after five Greek Cypriots with fabricated reasons and ruined people’s lives. Five Greek Cypriots crossed into Northern Cyprus, four showed their IDs, and one did not, so they committed a crime. Come on, your sea routes, air routes and land routes are filled with holes. Afghans entering the terminal building from the plane are disappearing into thin air but look at what are you busy with?

So, will the human trafficking gang, or gangs be dismantled? I highly doubt it; someone will try to protect them again, because these incidents aren’t limited to those caught committing the crimes; the invisible ones are what matter, you know, the matter extends and rests in very different places. Where there is decay, it is impossible to ‘find something good’, or to reach ‘the good, the beautiful’.

This article was originally published on 02.10.2025

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