THE CASE OF GRIGORIOS PANAS

Without any justification, the Turkish State demolished this old mansion which the children of Aikaterini Pana, three of whom were Greeks and one, Maria Mulder, a French citizen, had inherited. All this happened before 1964. The property was leased, the money was paid into the Bank of Turkey ...

... The 3rd Court of First Instance of Pera challenged this act of the State. The President of the Court himself argued that the property was in a border area ...

... The property was in Pera; the experts arrived and they were literally made complete fools of, because the property as in an area equivalent to Ermou St in the centre of Athens ...

... They then asked for something more audacious and provocative. They asked the Turkish Consulate in Athens to make enquiries to find out whether the heirs were alive and existent ...

... God help us if Greece dared to make such a request of the consulate of Greece in Turkey. Here too the case is pending ...