Better (and cheaper all round) to have people paying to be resident when they prefer to pay to pretend to be tourists, than to have people paying to be tourists when they are quite clearly resident. Again, if the UK was full of Turks 6 months of each year on holiday visas I think most would see that as a total abuse of our system. Funny how it's viewed differently the opposite way round isn't it? For once the easier alternative in Turkey is also the cheapest alternative - what more can they do!!!