In Loizidou v. Turkey (1996) the European Court of Human Rights held that the applicant, a Greek Cypriot displaced from Kyrenia in 1974, must be regarded as having remained the legal owner of her land, declining to attribute legal validity for Convention purposes to Article 159 of the TRNC Constitution which purported to expropriate it.
Claim record · last verified 14 September 2026
How to read this claim
- Jurisdiction
- European Court of Human Rights
- Where in the source
- Paragraphs 44 and 64
- Verification
- Primary source verified. We read the primary text ourselves on 14 September 2026.
- Legal review
- Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer. Marked for priority review.
- Relevant from
- 18 December 1996
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Version history
- — First published from the cited source. (version 1, First published)
Sources for this claim
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- [1]Loizidou v. Turkey (merits), application no. 15318/89, judgment of 18 December 1996
European Court of Human Rights · European Court of Human Rights · 18 December 1996 · accessed 14 September 2026 · source record
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https://northcyprusreference.com/en/claims/loizidou-remained-legal-owner
Identifier loizidou-remained-legal-owner · Open data · challenge