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PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:26 pm    Post subject: Greeks take Turkey to court over property in Constantinople! Reply with quote

ECHR - TURKEY - GREEK NATIONALS
Legal circles describe as very significant the case of Ioannis and Evangelos FOKAS against Turkey lodged on 6 March 2002 at the
The applicants, Ioannis Fokas and Evangelos Fokas, are Greek nationals and are represented before the Court by Greek D. Geldis and Cypriot Achilleas Demetriades, lawyers practising in Katerini, Greece and Nicosia, Cyprus respectively.

The ECHR called on Turkey to inform the court by 10 September if the applicants have possessions within the meaning of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention and if so, whether there has been a violation of the aforementioned provision, alone or in conjunction with Article 14 of the Convention.

Achilleas Demetriades of the Lellos P. Demetriades Law Office told CNA that ``the case is of great significance because it will open the road to Greeks ôï claim their properties in Constantinople, when the Turkish state is preventing them from inheriting the properties of their ancestors because they are not Turkish nationals``.

PS DP says and about Bloody time!
Aborigines should do the same and so should everyone who has been forced from their ancestral land by gunpoint!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:28 pm    Post subject: Re: Greeks take Turkey to court over property in Constantino Reply with quote

depurple wrote:
ECHR - TURKEY - GREEK NATIONALS
Legal circles describe as very significant the case of Ioannis and Evangelos FOKAS against Turkey lodged on 6 March 2002 at the
The applicants, Ioannis Fokas and Evangelos Fokas, are Greek nationals and are represented before the Court by Greek D. Geldis and Cypriot Achilleas Demetriades, lawyers practising in Katerini, Greece and Nicosia, Cyprus respectively.

The ECHR called on Turkey to inform the court by 10 September if the applicants have possessions within the meaning of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention and if so, whether there has been a violation of the aforementioned provision, alone or in conjunction with Article 14 of the Convention.

Achilleas Demetriades of the Lellos P. Demetriades Law Office told CNA that ``the case is of great significance because it will open the road to Greeks ôï claim their properties in Constantinople, when the Turkish state is preventing them from inheriting the properties of their ancestors because they are not Turkish nationals``.

PS DP says and about Bloody time!
Aborigines should do the same and so should everyone who has been forced from their ancestral land by gunpoint!
cheers


Good luck to the Aborigines , they will need it Wink
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