A land dispute case, important both legally and politically,is currently being heard in Western Thrace, a region in Greececoniguous to the Turkish frontier.1This land dispute, which first began in 1953 as a result ofan expropriation move by the Greek Government, has gonethrough the legal phases summarized below, and is presentlyat the stage of recourse to the Greek Court of Appeals, the appellants being the Western Thrace villagers who have beendeclared as "unlawful interferents" by the ruling of a Court ofFirst Instance in Iskeçe (Xanthy).