Extracts from original ECHR press release wrote:The Court maintained its view that pending resolution of the illegal occupation of northern Cyprus, it was crucial that individuals nonetheless continued to receive protection of their rights on a daily basis.
Even if the applicants did not live as such under the control of the “TRNC”, if there was an effective remedy available for their complaints there, the rule of exhaustion applied. This did not put in doubt the fact that the government of the Republic of Cyprus remained the sole legitimate government of Cyprus. The Court reiterated that an appropriate domestic body, with access to the relevant information, was clearly the more appropriate forum for deciding on complex matters of property ownership and valuation and assessing financial compensation, notwithstanding the time and efforts required from the applicants to exhaust domestic remedies.
No one has been able to answer my question at the beginning of this thread.
What is to stop the sole legitimate government of the whole of Cyprus to declare the IPC
invalid as an appropriate
domestic body, pending approval of the IPCs individual members, policies, procedures, terms of reference and principles by which it awards compensation and/or restitution. Approval could then be made by, say, the Cypriot attorney general, in consultation with the President and leader of the TC community.
Perhaps an island wide IPC could then be set up, to which all displaced Cypriots can apply and where the principles are consistent for all the island. The invader will be removed from the equation (beyond of course paying for the damage it has caused, together with commensurate contributions from the other two guarantor powers who let Cyprus down).