Landmark court ruling means Britons could be forced to return homes in Northern Cyprus

Source: Telegraph - UK




Thousands of Britons with holiday and retirement homes in Northern Cyprus could be forced to return their properties to Greek Cypriots or pay compensation after a landmark ruling from the European Court of Justice.

Linda and David Orams, from Hove in Sussex, lost a long legal battle against Meletios Apostolides, who owns the land their £160,000 holiday home stands on. Thousands of Greek Cypriots were forced out of Northern Cyprus when Turkish troops intervened in 1974 to prevent the island from being united with mainland Greece.

The European judges have ruled that British courts must enforce the judicial decisions made in Cyprus which uphold the property rights of Greek Cypriots who were forced out of the northern half of the island...cont'd






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sounds about right.

When I bought my house, I know I did.

particular, though.

Since the EU has previously maintained that the area of Cyprus not under control of the Republic of Cyprus is de facto outside EU legal authority. So if the Orams sell their UK home and move to their home in Northern Cyprus, what then? The TRNC sure isn't going to give this ruling the time of day since the EU has taken great pains to politically and economically isolate them.

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Leases on land for 99 years expired recently, and the First Nations decided not to renew the leases.

So some had the choice to sell their houses cheap. or literally take then off the property.

Yup - Natives are pissed off at the White Man - quite righteously so methinks.

So leased land on the Reserves is grabbed back by the natives, or traded for land elsewhere.

Treaty disputes are ongoing still, and the Natives are winning most of them.

Good for them - the white man destroyed their way of life - lies and broken promises.

Too bad the natives were not more ferocious -

They shoulda slaughtered every white man that ever touched North and South American soil.

Maybe Europe woulda believed that the World was flat, because then everyone that sailed away woulda never come back,

and dragged disease and destruction to the Western Hemisphere.

I've often wonder where humanity took the ultimate wrong turn,

maybe that was it - the East discovering the West

(sigh)

that the Mexicans owned the land in common. Therefore, the person who sold you his home (which you knocked down) had no legal ability to do that.