JUDGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE LOIZIDOU CASE: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION

Abstract

The applicant, Mrs Titina Loizidou, is a Greek Cypriot, presently living in South Cyprus. She owned certain plots of land in Kyrenia Girne . On 19 March 1989, a Greek Cypriot women’s group, Women Walk Home, organised a march with the announced intention of crossing the cease-fire line of the Turkish forces. From Nicosia, the demonstrators drove to the village of Lymbia, where a group managed to cross the buffer zone and the Turkish forces’ line. Turkish Cypriot police officers arrested some of the women, including Mrs Loizidou. Later the same day, they were released to United Nations Forces in Cyprus UNFICYP officials in Nicosia and taken over to the Greek Cypriot area.