FROM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Buffer_Zone_in_Cyprus
Crossings
After a
nearly 30-year ban on crossings, the Turkish Cypriot administration
significantly eased travel restrictions across the dividing line in April 2003,
allowing Greek Cypriots to cross at the Ledra Palace Crossing just outside the walls of old
Nicosia. This was made only possible after the decision of the ECHR (Djavit An vs Turkey, Application
No.20652/92).[8]
[8] Necatigil, Zaim (2005). Kıbrıs
uyuşmazlığı ve Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi kıskacında Türkiye: Avrupa İnsan
Hakları Komisyonu ve Mahkemesi'nde Kıbrıs Rum yönetimi ve Kıbrıslı Rumlar
tarafından Türkiye aleyhine getirilen davalar
[The Cyprus Conflict and Turkey in the grip of ECHR: Cases brought against
Turkey by the Greek Cypriot Administration and the Greek Cypriots before the
European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights] (in
Turkish). Ankara: Turhan Kitabevi. p. 190. ISBN 9789756194348.
"The TRNC
Government took a very dramatic decision on April 21, 2003 with the number E-762-203
number and lifted from 23 April 2003 onwards, except some formalities, all the
restrictions in order to facilitate the crossings, mutually from North to the
South and from South to the North." (p.189)
“There was a great
impact of the Cavit An’s application to the European Court of Human Rights,
which announced its decision on 20 February 2003, on the opening of the gates on the “Green
Line” on 23 April 2003. It is not possible to see the opening of the gates as a
coincidence that came after this provision." (p.189)
"A compensation
should have been paid to Cavit An. The Attorney-General of the TRNC contacted
Cavit An, the Euro account was opened in a bank in the TRNC and the
compensation and the judicial expenses were credited to that account. After the
court's decision, the gates were opened and the objectives of the decision were
fulfilled."(p.190)
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