"Over the past ten years the north鈥檚 population has swelled from 300,000 to 550,000, largely as a result of an influx from Turkey. The number of Russians stands at around 40,000 and Iranians at 10,000. With Turkish Cypriots now comprising just a third of the population, they feel like 鈥渟trangers in their own country鈥�, he said.