This Luxury home in "occupied" northern Cyprus, pictured above, looks real nice doesn't it? The house is owned by a British couple. Just one major problem. No, make that several major problems.
In the first place, the property on which the home was built, legally belongs to a citizen of Cyprus, Meletis Apostolides, who was forced to flee his property during the Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus in 1974.
In 1974, the military junta of Greece staged a coup to overthrow the government of Cyprus. Turkey used this as a pretext for invasion and occupation. In the wake of the onslaught over one hundred thousand Cypriots were forcibly expelled from their homes and land in northern Cyprus.
The Turkish military remains in northern Cyprus to back up their puppet Islamist government there.
When a "Right of Return" is legitimate:
"The invasion and occupation has had disastrous consequences. About 142,000 Greek Cypriots living in the north – nearly one quarter of the population of Cyprus – were forcibly expelled from the occupied northern part of the island where they constituted 80% of the population. "
"These people are still deprived of the right to return to their homes and properties. A further 20,000 Greek Cypriots enslaved in the occupied area were gradually forced through intimidation and denial of their basic human rights to abandon their homes. Today there are fewer than 600 enslaved persons (Greek Cypriots and Maronites)."
[ Don't hear much from the Islamists or their Dhimmi allies demanding this "right of return".]
Thus far, the Courts have sided with Meletis Apostolides, ruling that the British couple, the Orams, who built the luxury home, must return the land to the legal owner and dismantle their holiday house, pay damages and rent.
The Orams bought the property from a northern Turkish Cypriot. The problem being it wasn't the Turk's property to sell.
About 5,000 Brits own homes in "occupied" northern Cyprus on land that belongs to Greek Cypriots forced to flee the Islamic Turkish invasion.
How did the European Commission respond to Cyprus in light of the ruling of the Courts?
-"Don't make this political".
Contrast that with the response of the UK, Europe, as well as Obama, to the execution of an order by an Israeli Court, that Arabs who were illegally squatting on property owned by a Jewish citizen in eastern Jerusalem, be evicted:
The UK, EU, UN, and Obama, made it "political as hell"! And so did the biased MSM.
Why the difference in response?
With respect to Cyprus, thousands of Brits and other Europeans own homes and buildings on Greek Cypriot land illegally "occupied" by the Turks. So of course, they don't want to make it "political".
With respect to Israel, it Arab Muslims have illegally squatted on land and property that legally belongs to Jews. There are literally hundreds of such cases in Jerusalem alone.
A dhimmi double standard.
This past July, this attractive Israeli travel poster was removed from British mass transit, after Israel hating moonbats in the UK complained.
Despite many protests from Greek Cypriot refugees, Transport of London reinstated an advertising campaign, promoting tourism to "illegally occupied" northern Cyprus.
Despite a warning to foreigners by the Republic of Cyprus, not to purchase property in illegally "occupied" northern Cyprus, many British have.
This past December, the UK government issued a warning to it's citizens not to purchase property, in what it called the "occupied West Bank". Which of course is Judea and Samaria, the heart of Israel.
Many Brits and Europeans have felt it was OK to purchase property on Greek Cypriot land, that has been illegally occupied by Muslim Turks since 1974.
But they don't think it's OK for Israelis to own or build on their own land liberated from foreign "occupation", after nearly 2,000 years.
The difference is that Israel occupies no Arab land illegally. That is a false claim made by Islamists. In late May of 1967, Arab Muslim troops had massed along the border with Israel. Ready to strike, in yet another attempt to "drive the Jews into the sea."
A brilliant and successful preemptive action on the part of Israel, resulted in the defeat of those who sought their destruction. Before June of 1967, Judea, Samaria, the Golan, and the eastern section of Jerusalem, were under foreign Islamic "occupation". After the Six Day War, they were restored to Israel.
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