Turkey sued for $400bln in US for Cyprus property
Agamemnon
November 03, 2009
A US-based group, Class Action, is filing a $400 bln lawsuit against Turkey
with regard to claims by owners of property in Cyprus' northern Turkish
occupied areas, who are seeking the use and enjoyment of their property.
A press release, issued in Washington on the matter, said that "on Monday,
October 19, 2009, a Class Action lawsuit is being filed against the Republic
of Turkey for depriving hundreds of thousands of property owners their
rights to use and enjoy their property in northern Cyprus."
It explains that the deprivation of the use and enjoyment of property
started with the wrongful invasion and occupation of 40% of the island
nation of the Republic of Cyprus in 1974, that continues to this day.
"Despite recent findings of mass murders sites of civilians and others
condemned by the international community, the Republic of Turkey has failed
to cooperate with the civilized world," it adds.
Unfortunately, it continues, "the deplorable conduct" of the Republic of
Turkey continues in cooperation with the Turkish Cypriot regime, an
illegitimate and unrecognized entity operating through the presence of the
Turkish military.
To this day, it notes, the Turkish Cypriot occupation regime through the use
of the Turkish military deprive the plaintiffs and the Class the rights to
use, enjoy or return to their properties in violation of international law
and the laws of the U.S.
This lawsuit seeks compensation for the denial of the use and enjoyment of
the properties belonging to approximately 200,000 refugees and others who
were forced to leave by military force, some of whom paying with their
lives, by the Republic of Turkey in concert with the illegal regime in
occupied Cyprus.
The Turkish military equipment used to wrongfully occupy and displace the
plaintiffs and the Class from their property was sold and originated from
the United States that by law requires that U.S. military equipment acquired
by Turkey not be used in an offensive manner, the press release notes.
http://www.financialmirror.com/News/Cyprus_and_World_News/18097
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