The Court stated that this did not mean the applicants had lost their ownership in any formal sense, and that it would eschew any notion that military occupation should be regarded as a form of adverse possession by which title can be legally transferred to the invading power.
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- European Court of Human Rights
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- Where in the source
- Paragraph 112
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- [1]Demopoulos and Others v. Turkey (dec.) [GC], applications nos. 46113/99, 3843/02, 13751/02, 13466/03, 10200/04, 14163/04, 19993/04 and 21819/04, decision of 1 March 2010
European Court of Human Rights · European Court of Human Rights · 1 March 2010 · accessed 14 September 2026 · register entry
Identifier demopoulos-owners-not-lost-ownership · Review priority: consequential · Open data · challenge