do foreign citizens with full resendency have to join the army too

basheer



Joined: 22/12/2008
Posts: 949

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 16:53

I hear if one has a full resendency or call it full citizen or applies for a kimlit card due to wife and daughter owning a kimlit card does not have to serve the army who is not clasified a born cypriot origin

so are there anyone British with full resendency who do not have to join the army or their kids

you hear this and you hear that and what you told is'nt this or that! anyone has facts on this issue thanks

billyboy1


Joined: 01/06/2009
Posts: 590

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 16:57

I have my kimlick card, and have had for approx 15 years, when I moved to cyprus in 2004 with my english husband and child.....



he also got his kimlick card...he would have had to do his turkish national service, but because he had been in the british army...it was classed as a conflict of interests, so didnt have to do it......





i believe there is an age limit also

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 17:00

I want to join up, I hear the canteen food is excellent!



Richard

chinaeyes


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 425

Message Posted:
12/11/2009 12:47

Mike Lain who builds and sells sheds had to do National Service ,he's a smashing guy,he and his wife save loads of animals.Am sure he wouldn't mind if you rang him for some info.His ad is in the CT 0533 8668381

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
12/11/2009 14:52

Anyone who becomes a TRNC citizen i.e. gets a kimlik card has to do National service unless he did so in another country or if he was exempted from doing so. There is no age limit but there is a health check and an old man is likely to fail that one. My uncle who is over 80 celebrated such an event about a couple of years ago but he did have to go through the tests just the same. Although the army doctor said he had poor eyesight he insisted that he had good eyesight but eventually we persuaded him not to object

ismet

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
12/11/2009 14:55

Thank god for that Elko poor devil at 80 and still wanting to join the army

Warbabies


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 165

Message Posted:
12/11/2009 16:09

Ismet,



I am a UK national and have a white kimlik card. Can you tell me what the restrictions (if any) there are on me working? - can I set up my own business?

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
12/11/2009 22:51

Warbabies,

Would you care to explain what a white kimlik is? I have no idea what it is.

ismet

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
12/11/2009 23:23

It's a kimlik card but seems to be on white card rather than green.....

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
12/11/2009 23:29

Are women required to do some National Service as well Ismet?

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
12/11/2009 23:38

I would love to become a citizen and have my poor husband be the oldest military potato peeler in the business. He doesn't speak Turkish, so could not obey the square bashing commands, and as he is 80 it would make a great story. BUT he was in RAF, so would be exempt.



But ladies don't squirm in your furry boots - they don't call up ladies - just the fellas.



I do know of one man, married to a London Cypriot who wanted to become a citizen, but changed his mind when, although told he could have his kimlik card and be a citizen, would have to do national service. He has settled for permanent residency.

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
13/11/2009 15:19

Marie is quite right, there is no place for the ladies in the army.

ismet

Warbabies


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 165

Message Posted:
13/11/2009 17:25

Could it be that Permanent Residency card is white, and Citizenship, green?

With the Permanent Residency, would one be allowed to run a business etc.?

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
13/11/2009 19:51

I had to look at my ID card again just to make sure I got it right. Mine is white with a red Border line. TRNC flag in the top right corner and TRNC official sign in the left top corner and a very handsome picture of somebody in the right bottom corner. What else? Ah yes, the big signature at the bottom left belongs to my old colleague. We both worked for the same company for some time before it went under

ismet