Turkey should execute European Court judgements and pay the damages awarded, Cypriot refugees say

Turkey should immediately execute European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgements and pay the damages awarded, say refugees from Cyprus with property in the Turkish-occupied areas of the island, in letters addressed to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
 
Professor Andreas Orphanides and Anthousa Iordanou are among the applicants of the “Xenides-Arestis” group of cases, who turned to the European Court in relation to their property rights in Lapithos and Sysklipos and obtained judgments against Turkey, who is occupying the northern part of Cyprus since 1974.
 
Orphanides, who has yet to receive the damages awarded by the Court back in 2010 and asks for the immediate restoration of possession of his home and property in Turkish-occupied Lapithos, in the northern part of Cyprus, calls the Committee of Ministers to go beyond “theoretical” decis

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