Land law

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) has approved a change in its zoning plan for the city's historical peninsula, despite objection from its local urban planning office, which claimed the new regulation would lead to "irreversible" outcomes.  

The rector of the National Technical University of Athens (also known as the Polytechnio, or Polytechnic, in Greece), Ioannis Golias, must be overjoyed that the squatters/rioters who had occupied a wing of the historic building departed of their own accord early on Friday and thus saved him from an unpleasant task.

Police on Friday night stood guard outside a site in Votanikos, near central Athens, that has been slated for the creation of the capital's first mosque after arresting 15 nationalists who had been occupying the premises.

Turkish Forestry Ministry has announced a new regulation enabling further zoning projects for "the public interest" in private forests, with experts claiming that the change will threaten forests adjacent to Istanbul Bosporus.  

Can land rights for women drive down child marriage and domestic violence? 

"Yes and more," says an international group of land and property rights specialists who are due in Washington this week to discuss how improved land management can reduce global poverty and foster development. 

A court has ruled for stay of execution on a decision that reduced the natural site criteria of an area in the Urla district of Turkey?s Aegean province of ?zmir, where a businessman known to be close to President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an built villas, hosting Erdo?an there on a number of occasions.

“Better late than never” is the saying, and “late” in modern Greece is only 180 years or so. The case in point refers to the establishment of a unified and functional land registry (cadastre) in the country.

By Nikos Roussanoglou

Hungarian mayor in the north west of the country decided to rent the entire  village for just 690 euro per day.

The price includes everything exists in the village: streets, a bus stop, a barn, six horses, two cows, three sheep and a chicken yard on 10 acres of land.

Cyprus is unlikely to receive the next tranche of rescue funds from international lenders after apparently falling foul of them over new legislation on loan foreclosures, the island’s government said on Thursday.