The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey will pay nearly 15 million Euros in compensation to 19 Greek Cypriot applicants, as Anatolia news agency reports from Strasbourg. On September 22nd and October 27th, 2009, the court convicted Turkey of violating Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding the protection of property, in all 19 cases and of Article 8. Additionally with the right to respect for private and family life in 11 of them. ECHR ruled that Turkey would pay compensations to 19 Greek Cypriot applicants ranging from 30,000 to 5 million euro in respect of pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage, amounting to nearly 15 million Euros. Turkey will also pay 160,000 Euros for costs and expenses. Most of the applicants’ claims were made in 1990s. The applicants complained about the Peace Operation in 1974; a military invasion for the Greek-Cypriots, which deprived them of their home and properties. Previously the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers decided that the Immovable Property Commission (TMK) in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was the legitimate address for property claims of Greek Cypriots.
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