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Post by WillowTheWhisp on Apr 29, 2009 11:45:57 GMT
Presumably this won't affect you Trev as you're renting - and now it makes far more sense to me to rent abroad rather than purchase when you never know what might happen nxt. To see full story click hereI can see the point of view of the original owners who were displaced because the land and propery should be theirs, but it's tough on the people who bought it legitimately. I wonder if they have any claim against the people they purchased from. |
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trevnhil
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Post by trevnhil on Apr 29, 2009 13:25:54 GMT
Hi Willow.
As you say, it won't affect me, if only because we are renting (unfortunately)
The land is in the other half of Cyprus. ie the TRNC = Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Cyprus is a divided country, maybe about one third and 2 thirds. The larger Greek part is recognised the world over. The Turkish part in not widely recognised at all. But this has been going on for decades.
The court case over the land and property reported in the paper has also been going on for many years. It is a thorny problem which will not go away. But just as there is Greek land in the north..... so there is Turkish land in the south.
One day maybe it will all be sorted out, but I myself cannot see the land problem being sorted.
It is very difficult to trust the legal system here as you can in the UK.
This why we have problems with a plot of land that we want to build on, and at the moment we can't.
Trust no one here..... Remember the saying, 'beware Greeks bearing gifts'
Regards. To All. Trev..
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on Apr 30, 2009 16:34:23 GMT
I remember years ago when the division happened and some holiday makers got stranded and couldn't get back home. Was it like a civil war between the Greeks and the Turks on the island resulting in the political division? I recall the actor Edward Woodward was out there at the time.
What with the problems some ex-pat have had in Spain too with roads buing built across their land and them even having to pay for the privilege of losing their gardens and swimming pools I'd be very wary of actually buying anything abroad - much as I would like to.
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I had been telling my hubby about the time I was in Morecombe when the Moby Dick and Hotel was hit by lightening and burnt down. My parents, sister and myself had just come off the Moby Dick when lightening stuck