The Way Forward?

happyliza said:
So Chu, in answer to your mirror, my environment was the only option.
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I understand a bit better now, and want to say I'm very sorry about your son's passing, of which I knew nothing about. That must have been difficult.

That said, the "only option" doesn't mean that you have to ignore parts of reality, yes? The situation you are in now is due, in part, to the fact that you don't legally own anything in Cyprus, if I understand you correctly, as well as the political "mess" in that region. So, like imathatis said, make sure you don't blame the environment for what your actions brought about. Out of need or not, and based on the limited knowledge you may have had at the time, you DO see that you are not in a place where you are welcome as a foreigner, yes? And why?

happyliza said:
The change has been exponential, and thankfully I have been urged to acknowledge that as my spirit family are very proud of my inner achievements and 100% encourage me as they are behind my future plans. Their support, advice and assistance has been the major reason I have been abke to arrive out of the tunnel.
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Then ask them for support/advice. We aren't really equipped to say much, since your situation is quite unique. I wish you the best.
 
happyliza said:
Thanks for your signposts Chu. Sorry for late reply but i chose to take time reflecting first. In order to give it the consideration it deserves.
The initial factors that brought me to Cyprus were when I suggested a holiday there to my dad. Which i had never proffered before but in hindsight was very glad I did as he died the next year. So this was very special for us.
My 2 best friends also wished to join us, one of which also died not long after sadly.
(She has only just reached out to me for a 'reunion chat' last month.
This was all in 2002.
During that trip my friends did their own thing sunbathing but dad and i had planned to visit my husband's famiky in Tyre, Lebanon for 4 days. Such lovely memories and exp of life in a refugee camp!
So on New Year's eve 2003/2004 mum and I decided to holiday in North Cyprus to ease the grief of 'losing' dad. And because dad and I had felt compelled to try to visit the North when we were there. So because of following up why the 'urge', and that dad and I were not very enamoured with South Cyprus, we headed directly to North Cyprus.
I have since your posts directly asked spirit why I had an innate affinity with this area in the Near East as well as Palestinians.
They told me it was because both my son and I had had many incarnations in the area.
Mum and I instantly adored the environment and I had already been searching for places to start my intentional community/farm. We toured the entire north and on selecting an area found the lawyer that died in 2021 (his eldest son is the schemer trying to steal our trust assets since his father died).
The first farmland the lawyer arranged for us to see was not only breathtakingly beautiful but ideal. So on a second trip that April we finalised the purchases of the land, a house for mum and 2 other plots of land to finance the community project.
Meanwhile I had become a whistleblower at Waltham Forest Council in my capacity as Services manager re bullying of the public and unfair workloads handed down.
Both my son and I were basically jobless and very depressed in a cramped and tiny flat in London. I was getting very concerned about his mental state whilst utlilizing my whole time applying for jobs. To no avail and we were at subsistance level too.
So for us, we had the hope of now relocating to a sunnier and happy place in North Cyprus once the renovations had been completed on mum's house there.
I felt the need and the only way I could helo my son was to get him, us both, out of London asap.
I was also getting desperate as he was deteriorating fast and felt he needed a spirit release session asap as he was becoming psychotic. I could not find anywhere to do this in uk for some reason so prayed I could get him to Sheikh Nazim asap. Sufi master there.
Sadly this was not to be. My fears were substantiated and he took his life with an overdose on 9th Dec 2004 'to prevent the entities he was desperately afraid of, from 'forcing' him to not only harm his family loved ones but also do a 'Michael Ryan' massacre in the same location but in the town shopping mall!
My loving gentle hearted son, who always cared and helped others. Even giving his sofa (he had been given social housing), to homeless people regularly.
So sadly my intuition was correct and I was devastated for 14 more years. Prone to wrong choices and decisions but desperate and empty inside. Thus followed many narcistic relationships and frightful experiences as I fell headlong into a bottomless abyss in a dark night of the soul.
I had permanently moved to Cyprus shortly after my sins funeral, and having recently lost my dad too, with my brother to follow in 2010. Just mum, my sisters and 2 daughters left. No men left and nobody in a happy mode.
From that point my earnest search for truth and research began daily. And has continued ever since.
Many times i managed to pull myself up slowly out of another abyss, but gradually getting an inner strength built nonetheless. Plus a deep empathy and compassion for everyone's sufferings.
It seems it was a road I had to travel. But the lessons and experiences have been learned now.
In fact I cannot now recognize the person I was, compared to the soul I have now become. The change has been exponential, and thankfully I have been urged to acknowledge that as my spirit family are very proud of my inner achievements and 100% encourage me as they are behind my future plans. Their support, advice and assistance has been the major reason I have been abke to arrive out of the tunnel. Togerher with kindred spirits on this Forum.
This truly is the school of hard knocks. And I have been told to protect myself further by curbing my natural tendancy to want to trust some people. Especially now. We know this here so everything is about due diligence! Essential.
So Chu, in answer to your mirror, my environment was the only option. I needed the Mediterrean climate and lack of rat race stressors. But different ones arose in their place here instead. Plus current circumstances has turned on all foreigners here now forcing me to seek another refuge, even though this was never my intention. However, I also feel very grateful for the nudge/opportunity created by the Universe. As the project could never get off first base here which was very frustrating to say the least.
So I pray I have now been given another avenue from which to realuse my dream/mission. Time is not on my side, as I explained in posts above. But it is what it is and i must trust my intuition, do what I can, and keep my faith.
Another thing I noted throughout, was that due to my grief, mental suffering and abysses, I waz always on the defensive. Reactive. Having zero self confidence. This in turn hurtled me from one victim situation straight into the next one! I can only think that this was due to misguided trust issues. But in this local environment there is NOT anybody I CAN trust!
Again this has been confirmed by my dad on last 2 consecutive occasions. As he throws up his arms in disbelief and frustration of the situation here. That there is literally nobody here he can trust, they are all 'bent' (corrupt) and greedy. So they can see nobody i can turn to and my current lawyers seem the best of a bad bunch, and the situation is only getting steadily worse and much more unstable here.
I cannot find anything more that I can add to this that I am aware of. In hindsight, or otherwise. This is the past and the present AFAIK.
I sincerely invite any pointers from forumites. Big hugs. X
(Forming the safer community, and co-creating it with like-minded serious, self elevating souls, is my No1 goal right now).
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So sorry to hear about your son happyliza, i find the pain of that very difficult to imagine.
I think your doing great considering what you have been through. I also lived in London, and escaped too quickly, around 2017/18. Got myself and family into even more difficulty by doing that, so i can really relate to you there.
But Try not to beat yourself up too much for your wrong choices. (I don't always follow my advice as I'm still doing this). Can see you prob have alot of regrets, but just persevere and you'll get out of there . It's a really complicated situation so I've not got much advice to give.. Aside from perseverance.
Your in my thoughts. Take good care x
 
Thank you for your kind and understanding words and support HappyPoo. I found London quite soulless and everyone just in a rush all the time. There were not very many green spaces and the noise from police helicopters and sirens practically non stop. Just to hype of the stress IMO.
Also it is impossible to survive there on just one salary. Even though I was married, it turned out he was an addicted gamber so a liability rather than any help towards costs!
It does seem like I am in practically a similar situation to that in London. Where I cannot get out fast enough, and all energy is put to that goal.
There does seem to be a pattern, though maybe after living 21 years in the same place, environmentally happy,(though causing many of my own emotional stresses, except for the grief), that one can expect to come up against external problems that cause you to have to move on, and reconsider your future plans.

I was hoping to use this thread to help me 'iron out the creases' as it were. To find out my blind spots, step out of my way, where there are things that may be holding me back, or that I need to work upon (which we all still have many), and to investigate if I am bringing unnecessary blocks to myself, or that these are just the exact experiences that I had asked for in order to speed up my learning and growth in this lifetime.
My inner life is actually quite good thankfully, so long as I give the external stressors their due, acting where I can, as soon as I can, and sitting tight on those I am unable to alter personally.
These are convoluted external problems, and all related to savings my mother and I invested here totally legally and above board at the time.
I have also needed to consider the worst case scenario, and the fact that I may not be able to leave here at all because nothing sells as the political situation gets more unstable here, and the window to leave gets slammed shut. (Which I have been warned about, thus the June 2025 deadline).
The answer given to me was that I would need to protect myself from danger more and build a stronger support system locally. But that it is still feasible but a last resort.
But I think many places are going to get worse now, and wherever you are the politial situation can change in an instant. So even if I do manage to move to Paraguay, I need to keep in mind that surrounding countries and USA can potentially try to take over what is currently a very peaceful country with a stable and long established 'live and let live' Government mindset.
 
That said, the "only option" doesn't mean that you have to ignore parts of reality, yes? The situation you are in now is due, in part, to the fact that you don't legally own anything in Cyprus, if I understand you correctly, as well as the political "mess" in that region. So, like imathatis said, make sure you don't blame the environment for what your actions brought about. Out of need or not, and based on the limited knowledge you may have had at the time, you DO see that you are not in a place where you are welcome as a foreigner, yes? And why?
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Thank you Chu for your understanding. I was not aware of any other options at the time. As a family we had travelled quite widely when I was younger. Thankfully due to my parents being teachers in Germany and caravanning to many different countries during their term holidays.
So mum and I were able to recognize that environmentally it was a nice place to live and politically they had just had the UN Annan Plan introduced which was looking very positve for the island at the time.
One HUGE consideration to bear in mind is that in 2004 I was NOT aware of objective realities. It was only through my search for truth and needing to find out more information about my son, how he was, where he was, and if he was happy etc, that I eventually found the FOTCM in 2010!!
So I did not have the benefit of Laura's books and forum knowledge at the time.
It also took time to read through all the threads, recommended reading lists and accumulate the knowledge and facts, which may have changed my decision to move, or not. As I knew I had to get out of London asap. I was only there for the income as regionally earnings were not enough for me to survive. Plus I visite my parents every fortnight just to get back into the countryside, destress and get cleaner air! Those breaks kept me sane from living in London.

'Not owning anything legally in Cyprus'
All plots of land and the house, belonging to my mum and me, are all legally binded in the required immovable property trust that has to be formed for all foreigners owning more than one donum of land.
This is all above board, all permissions to purchase sought for and agreed/permitted by the Government, all taxes and legal requirement correctly completed.
My current solicitor has also confirmed that our solicitor (who died), had acted correctly and in accordance with all laws here.
So we DO own this land legally since initial purchase.

What has changed now, is the introduction of NEW laws and regulations (being oppesed in court by the Bar Association atm). These laws now state that EVERY foreigner, foreign investor, foreign developer, foreign company owner, or foreigners who own imovable property trusts, utilizing more than one donum, are now NOT PERMITTED to buy or own more than one donum.
This is also retrospective, so all the above have now been given maximum 2 years to liquidate their holdings/ownership or it will be deemed null and void.
This means that the Government is taking back all land and properties (only able to own one property now). There will be no compensation. So the Governemnt is not even effecting a compulsory purchase!
So you can understand the enormous scale and effect this is having on a massive number of foreigners across the country.
This law came out of the blue. The only reason given that they wish to collect in all taxes that have been evaded (not by me). And only allow foreigners of countries that are FREINDS of North Cyprus to purchase land or property as before. Eg these rules do not pertain to them. Of course UK is not considered a friend of TRNC!
Meantime as foreigners are not allowed to buy ANY land now, I have lost the market to sell my land. Locals can just rent agricultural land.
Also the laws have caused a glut of sales on the market now and also a huge depression in the housing market. So locals are now scooping up poor foreigner's properties for less than one third of their true market value.
So my reality now is that my project land has become worthless to sell, with no compensation. The house only worth 1/3rd, not enough to even cover my moving costs!

The other property is the apartment, that is in my name as WAS legally purchased and accepted as legal until the new regulations above came about 21st May 2024. This is in a TurkishCypriot block of 7 apartments in Kyrenia. All title deeds are Turkish title deeds, meaning the land has always been under Turkish ownership.

Retrospective taxes have now been introduced for 12% on the CURRENT value of the property. (Previously 3%, but 0% if it is your first property). Regardless whether you can obtain the original title deeds or not ALL people are now charged this 12% tax EVERY 6 MONTHS until they (impossibly) obtain their title deed. (Courts cannot force title deed owners to hand over title deeds even though they have already received the sale purchase monies!)
For most people, including me, this means finding a minumum of 20K every 6 months in taxes, that were not 12% taxes at purchase date, but 3% or 0%. Most pensioners (and me) do not have this money!! Nor have they a hope in hell of getting their title deeds! Rock and hard place.
Failure to pay taxes by the deadline of end of December (deadline keeps getting extended by 2 months atm), means that all permissions to purchase, all sales contracts (which is what I have, and was legal before), WILL BECOME NULL AND VOID. Meaning you will no longer own your property, nor will you be compensated.

On top of this ALL propety trusts that have not been liquidated within 2 years will incur a fine of 500 x the minimum wage. This equates to a fine of 500,000 pounds sterling!
When there is nobody now permitted to buy your land in the first place! Except locals.
If you cannot believe that what I have written above is not true because it seems so outrageous, it IS. And totally against human rights and the Constitution. But I doubt it will be changed much, and courts take years here. Average time is 3 years!

So this explains EXACTLY why foreigners are not welcome here any longer. And that includes ME!
I did not cause my current situation to occur. It is an 'external' event, beyond my control.
The actual law and the full laws, I will share below:

Transitional Rules Regarding the Existing Contracts of Sale​

These TRANSITIONAL RULES are related to sales transactions that were commenced before the date of the amendments coming into force.

  1. Everyone who had made the contract of sale before 21st of May 2024 must register their contract of sale with the District Lands Office and apply for permission to purchase within 6 months.
Those who fail to comply with the above section will be considered as having committed an offence and will be charged with a fine of 500 times the minimum salary wage.

However, if one can provide that he/she was abroad during this time that will be a valid defence in Court.

  1. Foreigner and foreign legal entities who obtained permission to purchase immovable property from the Council of Ministers before the 21st of May 2024, and the vendor who sold immovable property to them, must complete the transfer of the title deed at the relevant District Land Registry Office within 6 (six) months from 21st of May 2024. Those who fail to comply with the above section (whether it is a vendor or purchaser or both) will be considered as having committed an offence and will be charged with a fine of 500 times the minimum salary wage.
  2. If at the time the foreigner and foreign legal entity is granted the permission to purchase, the final approval of the immovable property has not been received and/or its division has not been completed and/or its separate title deeds have not been issued before 21st of May 2024, the vendor and the purchaser must pay all taxes and fees (i.e. remaining transfer fee, VAT (if applicable) and stoppage tax) within 60 (sixty) business days from the date of publication of the Council of Ministers decision to grant the permission to purchase.
  3. Trustee Agreement that was made before the 21st of May 2024, must be registered with the relevant District Lands Office within 75 (seventy-five) business days starting from 21st of May 2024. If such an agreement is not registered within the above specified period, it will become null and void.
  4. If the above rules are not complied with, the decision of the Council of Ministers to grant permission to purchase will become invalid and the registration of the contract of sale at the DLO will be automatically deleted and deemed invalid.
  5. If the vendor does not have a separate individual title deed or “Kat Irtifak” title deed, the purchaser can apply for permission to purchase provided that the Building permit (inşaat ruhsatı) is obtained. This rule is in the force until 21st of May 2025.
  6. If the transfer cannot be carried out due to an ongoing lawsuit, the transfer has to be made one month from the date when the court decision becomes absolute.
www.erginellaw.com

2024 - NEW RULES ON PURCHASING IMMOVABLE PROPERTY FOR FOREIGNERS (TRNC)

On 21st of May 2024, the TRNC Legislative Assembly passed significant amendments to the law on Acquisition of Immovable Property and Long-Term Lease (Aliens/Foreigners Law) No. 52/2008.
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