Pyrpolizer wrote:Many thanks from me as well Kikapu, both for your time and your information.
I often feel bad accusing the Kibrislis collectively, there are A LOT who were and still are perfectly honest people.It seems this guy Denktash and his gang +Turkey have designed everything, so that in any eventuality, the ones who will pay the price will be those who trusted them.
You need to put yourself in the shoes of most ordinary TCs to try and understand in what they did regarding their properties in the south and the GCs properties they took in the north.
After 1974, most TCs who came to the north from the south were given a place to live in GCs properties, because there were plenty of GCs properties to go around. Once the settlers started coming to the north, GCs properties to live in started to become scarce, so Denktash and his cronies devised a plan of how to take (steal) TCs land in the south and give them stolen GC land in the north. If the TCs wanted to continue living in the GCs properties in the north or buy another GC property, they needed to turn in their family deeds of their property in the south to the "trnc", and in return, receive these points to be converted to "buy" stolen GCs property. Often they didn't even have enough points given to them against their properties in the south to secure the GC properties in the north, so they were then forced to buy additional points from individuals who had them, since some TCs had a lot of land in the south and received a lot of points, or they just didn't have enough point to get a GC property and just sold off their points to just receive cash to get by or just leave the north and go abroad or some just refused to get a GC property at all but had the points all the same anyway. This point scam was done on a large scale. Families were able to divide up their family land in the south with a Micky mouse system in the north without probate in the RoC's courts. It was all or nothing for the families. They had to turn in all their deeds to be valuated in points and then eligible heirs to take equal shares in points. Even if some members of the family did not want to take part, they really didn't have a choice. Most did it out of necessity, so that they had a place to live. The fact that they were also told that Cyprus problem was over in 1974 and that they were kept in the north in an open prison, most Tcs never thought they will one day return to their properties, so they went along with Denktash's scam to be ripped off.
People like VP who came to the north in the early 90's from the UK only came to take advantage of the property situation, where they were not only able to converted their property in the south to stolen GC properties in the north, but also be in a position to buy a lot of cheap GCs properties from other TCs. There was no other reason for him to go to the north at the age of 30 from the comfortable living in the UK. Lordo's family too I believe took stolen GC properties in the north for their properties in the south. Any property Lordo talks about having in the RoC, more than likely the "trnc" is holding the deeds.There are of course other TCs who did not take or buy any stolen GC properties at all, and I'm very proud to say my mother is one of them, but rest of her family did so, but like many other TCs, often through desperation and also believing of no hope of ever going back to their properties in the south because Denktash and his cronies made them believe that they will never go back, and rather than lose their properties in the south for good, so he convinced the majority of the TCs to turn over their property in the south to the "trnc" and receive stolen GCs properties instead.
