Thousands of expats who have bought or developed property in northern Cyprus could be affected by a European Court of Justice ruling that courts throughout the European Union should enforce Greek Cypriot legal verdicts.
The ECJ judgement, published on Tuesday, backed the efforts of Meletis Apostolides, a Greek Cypriot architect, to reclaim land his family abandoned when the island was partitioned in 1974, on which a British couple has since built a holiday house.
