ECHR Ruling with Humour

elko2



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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 07:37

From Cyprus Mail, March 7th.

Tales from the Coffeeshop: The day we were told to go to Hell By Patroclos Published on March 7, 2010 ANOTHER big myth, peddled by our ultra-smart, bash-patriotic lawyers and politicians collapsed on Friday when the European Court of Human Rights recognised the pseudo Immovable Property Commission (IPC) in the pseudo-state. This means that the 1000-plus applications made to the ECHR, by Greek Cypriot refugees would have to be submitted to the pseudo-IPC and if the compensation is deemed inadequate an appeal would have to be made to the pseudo High Administrative Court. Only after these domestic remedies have been exhausted would the ECHR have to examine a case. In short, the big myth about the European solution, based on respect of human rights that could be secured through the courts has been exposed as big sham. With their ruling, the ECHR judges unceremoniously chucked all the case files of Greek Cypriots, into the recycling bin ....ctd

elko2



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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 07:39

ctd.

and ensured they would not have to deal with the Cyprus property issue ever again. Even if an applicant exhausted all domestic remedies and went to the ECHR, I bet the judges would deem the case inadmissible. And if anyone did not want to go to the pseudo-commission, he or she could wait for a political settlement of the Cyprob, the ECHR said in its ruling, adding that it could not offer solutions to a problem that should have been resolved politically. It gets worse. The judges also made it clear that a property did not have to be returned to the owner - there could be an exchange or he could be compensated - as the passing of 35 years raised many questions about ownership claims etc. Our establishment does not claim to have any legal expertise, but none is required to understand the ruling of the Court, which essentially said: "We are fed up of you Greek Cypriots, clogging up the Court with your cases and presuming that the Court has nothing better to do than deal with ...ctd

elko2



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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 07:43

ctd.

your pathetic problem, which you refuse to solve because you are too busy playing the uncompromising champions of human rights. Now you know that respect for human rights isn't all it's cracked out to be." THE DECISION was a fatal blow to the human rights sales pitch loved by our uncompromising, bash-patriotic lawyers, political leaders and Archbishop. What will they now say to the mugs they have been taking for a ride all these years with their hard sell about the European solution based on respect of all human rights? With the ECHR telling us to go to hell, which court would they recommend we use to solve the Cyprob? Larnaca district court, the Nicosia labour court or the Paphos kangaroo court? We await DIKO's legal expert Andreas Angelides, the great champion of legalism to tell us what form the legal liberation struggle would now take. Former ECHR judge, Loucis Loucaides, who, a couple of weeks ago, was insisting on a TV show that it was possible for a solution ...ctd.

elko2



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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 07:43

to be based on respect of human rights, must tell us what we should do now. We need some new, false hope. Incidentally, why did he not give his old chums at the Court a call and urge them not recognise the pseudo-IPC. What I would like to know is what all those bash-patriotic lawyers, who contributed to the Court's decision by heroically encouraging hundreds of refugees to file cases against Turkey, would do. Will they return the fees charged to poor refugees now that the cases have been dumped, without even being opened? It is the human right of refugees to be given back their money, but will their lawyers respect it? HOPEFULLY this case will put an end to our insane habit of viewing everything as an issue of human rights at the expense of common sense.

cooper


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 07:50

Very well put ismet, have a good day.

malsancak


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 08:42

Ismet, interestingly an article in Today's Zaman, "European court’s judgment on Cyprus issue legally wrong, politically correct" expresses the opinion that the ECHR deliberately delivered a wrong judgement to reward Turkey/TCs for accepting the Annan Plan and to punish the GCs for whinging all the time.

Tenakoutou



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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 08:50

And the the game of 'ping-pong' that is the 'Cyprob' keeps on keeping on....................................will the EU chuck the 'Bubbles' another 'initiative' - should we hold our breath, or yawn?

elko2



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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 10:58

Malsancak,

I have not read the Zaman article but in my vşew the turkish journalists hardly ever get it right when dealing with Cyprus issue.

Court cases are hardly ever a matter of black and white. If the law was so clear there would be no case. On the one hand you have the human right of original owner who must have absolute right over his property and on the other hand you must consider the human right of the turkish Cypriot who wants to save his life and hence separation. The two are incompatible and in the circumstances I believe the court made the right decision. Otherwise the agreed bizonality would have gone out of the window. Of course all the political factors were taken into consideration and there is nothing wrong with that.

ismet