in Cyprus Today – 6/3/2010

Turkish Cypriot victory at EHCR – read NCFP articles

Making a connection – after the flooding, culverts are being installed in the Girne bypass to combat flooding. The “main chunk” of the route is expected to be completed by April.

Erdoğan: “we could withdraw” – “Turkey has said it is prepared to withdraw its […]

ECHR ruling [on TRNC Property Commission] a victory for common sense and Cyprus

Human rights group Embargoed! welcomed today’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which upheld that the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) in North Cyprus was an “accessible and effective” local remedy for Greek Cypriot refugees. The group called the judgment “a victory for common sense and Cyprus”.

In its landmark ruling on […]

The Immovable Property Commission is vindicated

ECHR Court Room

The ECHR applicants were 17 Cypriot nationals of Greek-Cypriot origin, living in Nicosia, Limassol, Lakatamia and Larnaca. They were complaining that they’d been deprived of the use of their property and/or access to their homes in northern Cyprus as a result of the Turkish military operations in July and […]