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Whilst we wait for the usual suspect clowns to bring us real details of their oft-repeated claims of mythical actions against the RoC at the ECHR, some more good citizens of the Republic have a real hearing at the ECHR in a couple of week's time to reclaim Stolen Land ....

(From the ECHR site .... )

Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 9. 15 am
Grand Chamber
Demopoulos v. Turkey and 7 other cases (nos. 46113/99, 3843/02, 13751/02, 13466/03, 14163/04, 10200/04, 19993/04, 21819/04)
The applicants are all Cypriot nationals of Greek-Cypriot origin. They claim to be the owners of movable and immovable property located in the northern part of Cyprus, which has been occupied by the Turkish army since 1974. They allege that the Turkish authorities are preventing them from having access to this property and disposing of it as they wish. The applications were lodged between 1999 and 2004. Under different heads, the applicants rely on Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention (protection of property), and Articles 8 (right to respect for private and family life), 13 (right to an effective remedy), 14 (prohibition of discrimination), and 18 (limitation on use of restrictions on rights) of the Convention.
On 19 May 2009, under Article 30 of the Convention, the Chamber to which the applications had been assigned decided to relinquish jurisdiction in favour of the Grand Chamber.

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Some more info on these eight cases before the ECHR.

The matter has been referred to the ECHR's Grand Chamber who will decide (on 18.11.09) on the effectiveness or otherwise of an alleged effective local remedy. Also confirms there are 1,400 similar cases against the Occupying Power, Turkey, before the Court.
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( From http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:gN ... key+46113/ )

ARTICLE 1 OF PROTOCOL No. 1 / ARTICLE 1 DU PROTOCOLE No 1
PEACEFUL ENJOYMENT OF POSSESSIONS / RESPECT DES BIENS
System applied in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in respect of real property belonging to Greek
Cypriots: relinquishment in favour of the Grand Chamber.
Système de la République turque de Chypre du Nord pour les immeubles de Cypriotes grecs :
dessaisissement au profit de la Grande Chambre.
DEMOPOULOS and seven other cases/et sept autres affaires - Turkey/Turquie (No 46113/99, etc.)
[Section III]
These are eight post-Loizidou test cases (see Loizidou v. Turkey, application no. 15318/89, judgment of 18
December 1996) that were communicated or re-communicated in 2008. Some 1,400 similar applications
are pending.
The applicants are Greek-Cypriots and complain under Articles 8 and 14 of the Convention and Article 1
of Protocol No. 1 that, since the Turkish invasion of the northern part of Cyprus in 1974, the Turkish army
has prevented them from gaining access to their homes and exercising their right to the peaceful
enjoyment of their possessions.
The Chamber has relinquished jurisdiction in order to allow the Grand Chamber to rule on the
effectiveness of an application to the Real Property Commission set up in 2005 in the Turkish Republic of
Northern Cyprus which the respondent Government argue is a domestic remedy requiring exhaustion.
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