Titina Loizidou was kept from her Kyrenia land after 1974, won in Strasbourg, and Turkey paid in 2003 but never gave back the land

Titina Loizidou grew up in Kyrenia on Cyprus's north coast and owned several plots there. Work had begun on a block of flats on one before 20 July 1974, when Turkish forces landed. Her father was held for nine months at a Kyrenia seafront hotel. Her grandfather's house, where she spent her teenage years, became a hostel for migrant workers. On 19 March 1989 she joined a women's march across the line, and Turkish Cypriot police held her for about ten hours. She took her case to the European Court of Human Rights. On 18 December 1996 the court found that Turkey was responsible for denying her access to her property. On 28 July 1998 it awarded her 300,000 Cypriot pounds for pecuniary loss, 20,000 for non-pecuniary loss and 137,084.83 in costs, with interest. Turkey called the ruling political and refused to pay. It paid in December 2003; the Irish Times reported €1.2 million. She said she would use the money to build in Kyrenia. On 22 September 2022 the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers closed its supervision of the case, accepting northern Cyprus's Immovable Property Commission as a remedy. Cyprus called the closure legally unsound. She has not regained the land.