"Property appeal drives to the heart of the Cyprus problem
By Simon Bahceli
A COURT hearing early in January could decide whether Limassol-based Arif Mustafa will be the first Turkish Cypriot allowed to reclaim his property in the government-controlled areas of Cyprus since Greek and Turkish Cypriots were divided along ethnic lines in 1974.
Mustafa won, through a Supreme Court ruling in September 2004, the right to return to his 4-donum property in Episkopi. However, in the immediate wake of the ruling the Attorney-general succeeded in imposing an interim order pending the hearing of an appeal by the government and the Greek Cypriot refugee occupants of his lands. On January 12 that appeal will be heard, and whichever way the ruling goes, it will have far-reaching implications for Cyprus’ protracted refugee property dispute. "
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