 These resettlement laws did contain formal reporting of property to national authorities and contained procedures for those who had property taken to sue , but the specifics of the law made these provisions serve the larger goal to " Turkify " regions and economic sectors . The property records and revenue generated from the sale or rent of confiscated property were all recorded and deposited with the Ministry of Financial Affairs to provide for the possible return of property to owners . In addition , the law provided that those whose property had been confiscated to sue for return of the property ( and payment for any damages which occurred ) . However , the law required property owners to sue and be present themselves ( not allowing the power of attorney ) , an impossibility when property owners had been killed or deported . In addition , the defendant in any case would be the state which made the chances of success in any lawsuit extremely unlikely . Finally , the law provided that the confiscated property be sold at auction ; however , because the law specified that " anybody other than Turkish Muslim refugees can only acquire property in Turkey with the approval of the Ministry of Internal Affairs " , the result was that non @-@ Turkish Muslims were effectively excluded . Property was provided often to national and local political elites , who eventually gave them to Turkish Muslim refugees . 
