 On 11 June 1986 , the laws concerning " abandoned " properties during the Armenian Genocide were abrogated , which ended 73 years of effectiveness . Throughout the Republican period , the laws continued to provide a legal basis for the confiscation of additional property that belonged to the deportees . Though the laws were abolished in 1986 , the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre ( Turkish : Tapu ve Kadastro Genel Müdürlüğü ) issued an order on 29 June 2001 which effectively transferred all the leftover " abandoned " properties to the government . The order also forbid the disclosure of any information regarding the title or the documentation of the properties . As a result , the owners or their heirs could not make claims to the property since it was now securely sanctioned under Turkish law and had become property of the state . 
