Denktas claims that Loizidou Case is used as a pressure on Turkey

Denktas claims that Loizidou Case is used as a pressure on Turkey 

TRNC President Rauf Denktas said on Friday that the decision of the
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) about Ms. Loizidou was used as a
means of putting pressure on Turkey.

Speaking in a news conference, Denktas said that urging Turkey to pay
compensation for a real estate which was not worth of 100,000 U.S.
dollars and accepting this decision as a model for the future cases
meant not wanting the solution of Cyprus issue.

Noting that the issue of property in Cyprus was an issue that could be
sorted out on negotiation table by the two sides politically, Denktas
said that exchange of population was made in the past. Denktas said an
agreement on the basis of bi-zonal structure was made in political
aspect, adding Annan plan aimed to disturb that.

Reminding 1977-1979 agreements concluded with Greek Cypriots which
noted that in case of an agreement foreseeing bi-zonal status, Greek
Cypriots' gaining properties would be within the laws of the North and
the buffer zone would not be infringed, Denktas said that Loizidou
infringed the buffer zone and violated the agreement.

Denktas said that the fact that two sides had equal rights must be
accepted, adding that Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos told
Turkish Cypriots that "compensation would be paid after an agreement
is made" for the Turkish properties usurped and demolished by Greek
Cypriots.

"If compensation for the losses of Turkish Cypriots is going to be
paid after the agreement, then a Greek Cypriot woman's applying to
ECHR against Turkey saying that she could not go to the place in the
north by infringing the buffer zone, her winning the case and making
this case an example for other cases is really shameful and it also
impedes finding a solution to Cyprus issue. It is difficult to sort
out Cyprus issue before sorting out the property issue. You will tell
people who consider a building as their property and who make
investment for 30 years to be migrants again. You will tell them there
is no place for them to go and they have to take care of themselves on
their own. This is not possible," Denktas said. (Anadolu Agency,
December 1, 2003)

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