The Property Issue on Cyprus (Süheyla Hande Sağlam)

The Property Issue on Cyprus Süheyla Hande Sağlam ORİON KİTABEVİ
The Cyprus conflict has been on the world’s political agenda for more than fifty years. Regardless of other events, the property issue will likely to dominate the conflict. So, there has been great effort to solve the property issue in the Cyprus conflict. Settlement of the Cyprus conflict and solution to the property issue will affect the interrelationship between the communities and their living. In this context, people who are dealing with the issue need to clearly understand the spirit and the boundaries of the property rights.

However, this issue is very complex and approaches of both parties to the issue are very different. After allocation of the properties there will be heterogeneous mixture of population and as they highly differ along the custom, religion and language that it will not be easy to establish a homogeneous structure. As the world’s attraction points changes in the international dimension more attention needed in order to reach a settlement on the island.