Let me get this correct, TC's can't have THEIR property back, why?
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They ‘protect’ Turkish properties even from their owners!
Greek Cypriots want their properties back but deny the same right to Turkish Cypriots
The Greek Cypriot High Court concluded that Turkish Cypriots ‘do not have the right’ to use their properties left in Southern Cyprus. The Court approved the decision made by the Greek Cypriot Ministry of Internal Affairs that denied the request that property in Bahcalar village in the Larnaca District be returned to 2 Turkish Cypriots, Zehra Kemal Ahmet and Nuray Kemal Ahmet, who now live in Kyrenia. The appeal by the sisters against the Greek Cypriot government was concluded on June 8 when Minos Kronidis, the court judge, advanced this claim while announcing the verdict: “The Ministry of Internal Affairs is regarded as being the authority in managing Turkish Cypriot properties as it is the curator, as long as this abnormal situation in the island resulting from the Turkish invasion continues. Consequently Turkish Cypriot owners of these properties, which are under Greek Cypriot control, do not have the right to use these properties; since they are interdicted to use their right of possession until the facts created in 1974 cease.”
According to Greek Cypriot media, the Greek Cypriot High Court had, on legal grounds, denied the application made by the Turkish Cypriots because ‘they ran away from the Greek Cypriot side due to ‘their fear’ and claimed that they would not have lost their properties if the 1974 Turkish Military Expedition, which it defined as the ‘invasion’, had not happened. The Greek Cypriot High Court claimed that the “Turkish Cypriot applicants abdicated their properties due to the Turkish ‘invasion’”.
Also in the verdict concerning complaints by the Turkish Cypriots in their applications that their constitutional rights had been invaded, it was claimed: “Since they have moved collectively and abandoned their properties, it was a necessity to protect the Turkish Cypriot properties for their own benefit. It was completely justifiable to make the law known as ‘Turkish Cypriot Properties Curatorship’. On the basis of this law, Turkish Cypriots are not devoid of their properties, yet the management of these properties are left to the curators during the abnormal circumstances.”
Source: http://www.observercyprus.com/observer/ ... px?id=1791