Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Hukuki Boyutlarıyla Kıbrıs Türk Vakıfları, Zeki Akçam, Editör, Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi (basımda), Lefkoşa, 2025
It is necessary to consider the perspectives of Sharia Law and Common Law traditions concerning the current basic concepts, definitions, and status of the endowment phenomenon in Cyprus. However, the interest of legal scholars from Turkiye in Northern Cyprus increased due to the strengthening of Northern Cyprus’s socio-economic and political ties with Turkiye, especially after the 1974 Operation. Since Cyprus followed a different political and legal course from the Ottoman Empire and Turkiye after 1878, the Civil Law tradition (of which Turkiye is a member) may become increasingly influential on the Cypriot legal system. In this paper, I address the problem of how legal traditions view endowments in Cyprus. First, I will give brief information about the basic concepts, definitions, and statuses related to endowments in the legal history of Cyprus. In this sense, I will include the understanding of the Sharia Law, Civil Law, and Common Law traditions due to their stronger current and possible influence on endowment law in today’s Cyprus. Then, I will introduce the existing literature on law to outline the development of the law of endowments in Cyprus in the last hundred and fifty years. I will specifically emphasize some of this development’s legal and institutional foundations. I will trace the understanding of Sharia Law in fundamental legislation and high court decisions of endowment law in Cyprus.