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.
Claim record · last verified 14 September 2026
How to read this claim
- Jurisdiction
- European Court of Human Rights
- Where in the source
- Paragraph 112
- Verification
- Primary source verified. We read the primary text ourselves on 14 September 2026.
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- Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer. Marked for priority review.
- Relevant from
- 1 March 2010
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- — First published from the cited source. (version 1, First published)
Sources for this claim
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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 · source record
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Identifier demopoulos-owners-not-lost-ownership · Open data · challenge