Demopoulos v.Turkey and 7 other cases

 The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights declared inadmissible the case of Demopoulos v. Turkey and seven other test cases raising a similar issue . The applicants in these cases were Greek Cypriots who complained in particular that they had been deprived of the enjoyment of their possessions since Turkey's occupation of the northern part of Cyprus in 1974. The Court found that Turkey had established an accessible and effective framework of redress in respect of complaints about interference with the property owned by Greek Cypriots and that the applicants' complaints must therefore be rejected for non-exhaustion of domestic remedies. The judgment is of considerable significance as there are some 1400 similar applications currently pending before the Court.