Compensation commission” is a Turkish trick with an expiry date

The message which the Turks are trying to give as regards the so called compensation commission for Greek Cypriot properties in the Turkish occupied areas of Cyprus is that a satisfying compensation mechanism for all the displaced people exists and functions, Government Spokesman Vassilis Palmas has said, adding that this constitutes a tricky movement of Turkey.

He added that Turkish side is trying to tempt Greek Cypriots to unwillingly incriminate Turkey for the continuous crime of the usurpation of Greek Cypriot properties, and at the same time create problems as regards the European Court of Human Rights, which hears such cases.

As regards the issue of the properties and the activities of the so-called commission, Palmas said the government considers that all that is happening through the activity of this “commission” in the occupied areas “is an explicitly delusive movement by Turkey in its effort to prove that a satisfying compensation mechanism exists and functions for all the displaced persons”.

“This is the message the Turks want to give as regards this commission. We say that this commission is an unsolicited commission and a Turkish trick, which basically has an expiry date,” he added.

He said that the amounts that will be needed to pay these compensations may reach the budget of a big country and wondered whether “they are willing to proceed with such ventures.”