polis wrote:The complex situation being that living in someone else's property doesn't make the property yours unless, a. you never paid rent for the property, b. the owner has either being murdered or ethnically cleansed, and c. you don't think that the owner will ever be able to evict you. Attila the Hun Code, Volume II, Article 125.
The complex situations is WHY today there are TC using land that was GC pre to 74 in the North and GC using land that was TC in the South pre 74.
I realise that for you the 'why' we are in this situation today is answered by the response 'because TC and Turks are barbaric greedy murdering thieves and gc are pure innocents who have done nothing at all to cause the situation in Cyprus as it exits today'. However the reality of why we ended up in the situation we are in today is in fact a lot more complex than this.
As I have said before childish approaches along the lines of 'my side is totaly innocent and your side is totaly guilty' will get us no where.
Both sides have played their parts in creating the conditions that have led us to where we are today, including us having people on both sides that are currently using property that before 74 was owned and controlled by someone else. I think a settlement should seek to rectify this situation in ways that cause the minimum additional new harm to all of use as is possible.
Giving a property comnission the power to rule that in given indivdual cases under pre agreed criteria they can place current users rights over those of pre 74 owners is no more denying the rights of indivduals than agreeing that the state can under specific conditions and after paying proper compensation compulsary purchase land from private indivduals against their wishes for a greater good.