US LAWYER SUES TURKEY IN DC COURT OVER CYPRUS FOR 400 B1LL1ON D0LLARS
Gibrahayer – Nicosia
Dec 2009
The Associated Press – A U.S. lawyer says he has filed a class-action
lawsuit against Turkey for allegedly using U.S.-supplied arms to
commit human rights violations on Cyprus.
Athan T. Tsimpedes says U.S. law forbids countries from using
American weapons to breach international law.
He said Thursday that the lawsuit was filed last October in a
District of Columbia court on behalf of three Greek Cypriots.
Tsimpedes alleged that Turkey used U.S. arms to evict Greek
Cypriots from their homes in 1974 when it intervened after a coup by
supporters of uniting the island with Greece.
Tsimpedes, who is seeking 400 billion USD (274.73 billion EUR)
in damages, said he was also suing authorities in the island’s Turkish
Cypriot north for promoting in D.C. the sale of Greek Cypriot
property.