A little recap:
A Turkish speaking Cypriot lawyer, the spouse of CTP parlimentarian Fazilet Özdenefe, Akan Kürşat was arrested in Italy, for the reason of “selling Greek Cypriots property that was left in the north side of Cyprus to other people.” He was going to be returned to Republic of Cyprus; but he didn’t want that, he said “he is afraid of his life security in the Republic of Cyprus.” He is still in Rome, Italy. The trial was postponed to 6th of February. Politicians in trnc are working to return Kürşat to trnc and not to be tried in RoC or in Rome.
Today, Zorlu Töre, the president of trnc parliament said: “Akan Kürşat doesn’t need to be tried in Rome. He needs to be returned to trnc; because our deeds, trnc’s deeds are valid.”
What do you think about this issue overall?
by CypriotPeacemaker
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I don’t know the specifics of the case, but generally from the various cases in different legal forums, the general consensus is that GCs still retain ownership of their property, so if it wasn’t hers to sell, then it doesn’t look good for her.
I don’t think the fear for her life argument will work considering they can just point to the checkpoints and millions of crossings happening every year without issue.
What I think will happen in reality, there will be a bunch of arcane legal arguments over jurisdictions and international/EU/Cyprus/turkey/trnc laws and stuff. In the mean time they will let her out because it’s Italy and it will take 2 million years to go through the courts and she will basically appear in northern Cyprus after a few months. Bonus prediction Tatar will give a speech how he showed Italy/EU/the MCU who’s boss.