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    NON-MUSLIM MINORITIES WILL RETRIEVE SEIZED PROPERTY

    BIAnet.org
    Aug 29, 2011
    Turkey

    Turkish government adopted a decree to return all immovable property
    seized in 1936 to non-Muslim foundations. Compensations will be paid
    for immovable property owned by third parties.

    Istanbul - BÄ°A News Center29 August 2011, Monday On Saturday (27
    August), the Official Gazette published a decree on the return of
    immovable property of non-Muslim minorities. Thus, all confiscated
    immovable properties, historic cemeteries and fountains will be
    returned to non-Muslim minorities. Immovable property owned by third
    persons will be paid for. The decree is an expansion of the law on
    returning goods to minority foundations as enforced in 2008.

    Radikal newspaper reported that the Ministry of Finance is going to
    determine the compensation to be paid for immovable property owned by
    third persons and the Treasury of the Foundations General Directorate
    are going to pay the money.

    The new regulation comes unexpected and within an unusual context:
    It was issued in the scope of amendments of certain Decree Laws (KHK)
    on the duties of the Food, Agriculture and Livestock Ministry.

    According to the decree, "Immovable properties of non-Muslim
    foundations registered in the 1936 Declaration with their 'owner'
    section left empty, immovable properties in the 1936 Declaration
    regulating minorities' properties for the first time during the Period
    of the Republic and registered on the Treasury, the General Directorate
    of Foundations, Municipalities and Special Provincial Administration,
    except for reasons of sale or expropriation, and cemeteries and
    fountains registered on public institutions, will be entitled to be
    registered on the non-Muslim foundations upon application".

    Amendments in 2003 and 2008 paved the way to the return of certain
    properties of minority foundations that were subject to dispute.

    However, no steps were being made towards immovable property owned
    by third parties in particular.

    The 1936 Declaration prohibited minority communities from acquiring
    property. According to the new regulation, immovable property
    registered in the "ownership" section of the 1936 Declaration that is
    not owned by third persons will be returned to the minority communities
    together with the related entry in the land register.

    The foundations will have to apply to the Foundations Council within
    twelve months to reclaim their property.

    Among the property to be returned to minority foundations are about
    50 cemeteries including the Å~^iÅ~_li Greek Cemetery and important
    cemeteries in Yeniköy or Boyacıköy (districts on the European side
    of Istanbul); the Galata School in Karaköy (Istanbul); important
    areas of the Jewish community in Kandilli on the Asian banks of the
    Bosporus; the Armenian Gulbenkyan Selamet Public House; immovable
    property belonging to the Bakılkı Greek Hospital Foundatio



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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