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A Turkish Cypriot who owns a portion of the land in Ayios Dhometios, where the \u2018government\u2019 plans to build a Turkish-funded Islamic \u2018presidential\u2019 complex, is taking legal action against the authorities over the matter, it emerged on Friday.<\/p>\n
According to the Press and Information Office, two newspapers in the north reported that Canev Denner, who owns nine donums of the land allocated for the project, is suing the \u2018government.\u2019Newspapers Avrupa and Yeni Duzen reported that Denner had had purchased the land in 1973 but was prohibited from using it following the Turkish invasion of 1974, as the area was designated a military zone.The largest portion of the land appears to belong to Greek Cypriots, according to previous reports.The trial is set to commence on March 20 and could result in a decision for the \u2018authorities\u2019 in the north to halt construction of the massive complex, which includes buildings for the \u2018parliament,\u2019 the \u2018president,\u2019 and a mosque.On May 5, 2017, the Turkish army returned the land to its owner, but the \u2018government\u2019 expropriated it after deciding to construct the complex, publishing the \u2018expropriation decision\u2019 in the \u2018official newspaper\u2019 on February 29, 2024.Denner subsequently filed an appeal through legal representation, urging the \u2018supreme administrative court\u2019 to halt construction and refrain from further action.Two days ago, the \u2018supreme court\u2019 heard the case and summoned the defendants to appear in \u2018court\u2019 on March 20. Representatives from the \u2018cabinet\u2019 and the \u2018transport ministry\u2019 have been invited to participate in the trial.The value of the land, estimated at several million pounds, spans 9 donums.Follow the
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A Turkish Cypriot named Canev Denner, who owns nine donums of land in Ayios Dhometios, is suing the authorities over plans to build a Turkish-funded Islamic ‘presidential’ complex on his property. Denner purchased the land in 1973 but was prohibited from using it after the Turkish invasion in 1974 when it was designated a military zone. The land was returned to him by the Turkish army on May 5, 2017, but was later expropriated by the ‘government’ for the construction of the complex, with the decision published on February 29, 2024. Denner has appealed to the ‘supreme administrative court’ to halt the construction. The trial is set to commence on March 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1972,652,924,1625,932,3,1850,250,415,2121,2120,1799,284,168,364,1906,268],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-appeal","tag-army","tag-buildings","tag-construction","tag-court","tag-cyprus","tag-defendants","tag-google","tag-government","tag-land","tag-legal-action","tag-parliament","tag-property","tag-supreme-court","tag-transport-ministry","tag-trial","tag-turkish-cypriot"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n