This blog is about how private land with title deeds in areas identified as FOREST, is confiscated (without compensation) by the Turkish Government. The European Court of Human rights has condemned Turkey for not paying compensation and has found it in breach of Protocol 1 Article 1 of the European Convention of Human Rights. In fact most of these takings are also illegal in Turkey and are not prescribed by the Turkish Constitution or Forest Law 6831, but this has yet to be proved at the ECHR
Thursday, May 31, 2012
A new domestic remedy in Turkey - The ECHR has recognized that (due to a change of approach by domestic courts) where a private individual’s document of title had been declared void because the land was part of the public forest estate, the individual is now entitled to claim compensation under Article 1007 of the Civil Code
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