Kifeas wrote: They knew or should have known that they were trespassing and illegally investing in GC properties for which their owners did not give their consent, and they should have avoided doing this.
You may believe that what TC should have done post 74 is squeeze into a tiny proprtion of the area in the North, making no use of the vast amounts of land under its control but owned by GC pre 74, but such an expectation is in my opinion simply unrealistic. In reality this is not even what the RoC did with the areas under it's control, even though the vast majority of land under their control was not TC owned pre 74 they still used and use areas that were TC pre 74. If the TRNC had not used or allowed any use of the area under its control post 74 but owned by GC pre 74 it simply would not exist today.
I do not think the burden of a property solutiuon in Cyprus should be borne by just those that lost access and control of property in 74 and nor do I think it should be borne disproportionatley by one community either.
I would look favourably on any solution that took the above premise of a settlement as its starting point. I do not think the above is the 'starting point' for the GC sides current position on a property settlement.
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