Court rejects Turkish Cypriot Paphos airport owner’s compensation claim

An application for a total of €41 million worth of compensation from the Republic of Cyprus filed by the displaced Turkish Cypriot owners of land on which both Paphos airport and the Andreas Papandreou airbase was built has been rejected by the court of appeal, the legal service said on Friday.

The applicants had initially filed a lawsuit at the Paphos district court in 2022, before filing a suit at the court of appeal after the district court had rejected their initial application....