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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Turkey failing on minority property rights Reuters - Monday, March 16 By Ayla Jean Yackley ADVERTISEMENT ISTANBUL - Turkey's EU-inspired reforms of laws limiting property rights have created new obstacles for ethnic minorities and threaten to stymie progress towards membership of the bloc, a report said. Non-Muslim Turks still face "anti-democratic and unlawful practices" that violate the European Convention on Human Rights, despite legislation in September that sought to ease restrictions on their property ownership, the report by the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, or Tesev, said. The European Union has said Turkey must expand rights for minorities if it is to advance its membership bid. The European Commission welcomed the new law in its annual progress report on Turkey, but said the government had failed to implement it fully and had not resolved outstanding property disputes. "The rights of minorities are of utmost importance in the EU process," Dilek Kurban, one of two authors of the Tesev report, said at a news conference on Saturday. "If Turkey is unable to resolve the issue of property rights, EU membership is impossible." Since the 1930s, Turkey has seized thousands of properties belonging to Greek, Armenian and Jewish foundations. The foundations are mainly tasked with overseeing assets belonging to the minorities. Turkey has also curbed their ability to buy and sell assets, receive financial assistance from overseas and generate revenue from property. The law passed in September lifted such restrictions and includes terms for the return of some of the confiscated property. But it offers no "fair solution" to ensure the return of assets and now requires non-Muslim charities to seek state permission to acquire new property, Istanbul-based Tesev said. Turkey's population of 71 million is 99 percent Muslim. About 80,000 Armenians, Jews and Greeks remain in Turkey, the descendents of Ottoman Empire subjects. Under the new law, the state has re-registered properties it has seized under different names to prevent their return and bars non-Muslims from establishing new foundations, a right afforded Muslim charities, the report said. Turkey has lost five cases at the European Court of Human Rights in the past two years that were brought by ethnic Greek and Armenian foundations. The Strasbourg-based court ordered the Turkish government to return the properties or pay about 3.8 million euros in reparations. Turkey's main opposition parties have appealed to Turkey's top court to strike down the new law on foundations. "The government is making efforts to meet EU criteria, but unless all parties and institutions are part of the process, little progress can be achieved," said Kezban Hatemi, the second author of the report. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Cheney going high-tech and driving a carAP - 49 minutes ago Connecticut's Gold Coast braces for Jerry SpringerAP - 52 minutes ago Bomb kills four NATO soldiers in AfghanistanReuters - 58 minutes ago Cleopatra 'was part-African'AFP - 1 hour 4 minutes ago Burkina Faso: 15 dead in canoe accidentAP - 1 hour 6 minutes ago Most Popular – World Viewed Arrest warrant issued for Lindsay Lohan For sale: nagging wife, very high maintenance Bailed-out AIG plans bonuses worth millions: report World Bank warns of "very dangerous" year ahead Iran says oil market oversupplied View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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