TURKISH LANDS IN LARNAKA ALLOTED TO GREEK CYPRIOTS

Greek Cypriot Interior Minister Andreas Hristu said 12 thousand 78 hectare Turkish Cypriot Land in Larnaka was allotted to Greek Cypriot Refugees.

According to Greek Cypriot daily Fileleftheros, Hristu responding to question of Greek Cypriot MP Kikis Yangu, during a parliamentary meeting, stated that in Larnaka district there were 12 thousand 78 hectare agricultural land belonging to the Turkish Cypriots and these land were allotted amongst the Greek Cypriot refugees who left land in the north.

TURKISH CYPRIOTS WHOSE LAND WERE "EXPROPRIETED" TO BUILT LARNAKA AIRPORT START A LEGAL STRUGGLE

As a result of the property cases filed by the Greek Cypriots, who left property in the North, against the Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots have also started to file charges for their properties left in the South.

Legal varicoses of the late Ayten Ali Sütcü, are preparing to start a legal struggle against the Greek Cypriot administration on grounds that 145 000 square meters of the land, where the Larnaka Airport was built, were "expropriated" by the Greek Cypriot administration without asking their permission and with a very low price and that this money was not paid to them.

The son of Ayten Ali Sütcü Dr. Behlül Sütcü stated that besides this land, where Larnaka Airport was built, his mother had another 9000 square meters land and this land was also expropriated to built school. Dr. Sütcü pointing out that the Turkish land were expropriated with a very low price said their aim was to capture the Turkish Lands with a very low prices. He said the Greek Cypriots also built a road into one of their relatives’ land and did not pay the money because they say the money would be paid after a settlement.

Calling upon everyone in similar situation to act together Dr. Behlül Sütcü said "we will never give up our legal rights. We will also demand the cost for the use of our property since 1974."

Turkish Cypriot Huseyin Helvacýoglu, stating that one part of Larnaka Airport was also on his land, claimed 100 million Cyprus Pound compensation from the Greek Cypriot administration and also the restitution of his remaining land.

TRNC NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE CAGLAR’S LETTER TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL "GREEK CYPRIOT ADMINISTRATION’S COLLOCUTOR IS TURKISH CYPRIOT SIDE"

The TRNC New York Representative Resat Caðlar, stated that the collocutor of the Greek Cypriot Administration was not Turkey but the Turkish Cypriot side.

Caðlar in a letter addressed to the UN Secretary General responded the letter of the Greek Cypriot Administration’s UN Permanent Representative Andreas Mavroyiannis alleging that “the Turkish Planes were violating the airspace of the Republic of Cyprus and the Flight information region (FIR) of Nicosia”. Caðlar stated that these allegations were baseless.

In his letter which has been published as a UN document, Caðlar stressed that the flights within the sovereign airspace of the TRNC take place with the full knowledge and consent of the appropriate authorities of the Turkish Cypriot State, over which the Greek Cypriot administration in South Cyprus has no jurisdiction or right to say whatsoever.

Underlining that the Civil Aviation Authority of the TRNC is the only competent authority to provide air traffic and aeronautical information services, Caðlar stated that the allegations regarding the violation of the “airspace of the Republic of Cyprus and the flight information region (FIR) of Nicosia" are baseless.

Stressing that these kinds of allegations were the result of the Greek Cypriot claims to dominate the whole of the island, said these accusations were far from the realities of the island and was the continuation of the hostile attitude of the Greek Cypriot administration.