File 63 - Abdullah Menteşe and others

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Materials pertaining to the case filed by Mr Abdullah Menteşe, Ms Zühra Bozkuş, Ms Hatun Demirhan, Mr Mustafa Demirhan, Ms Ayşe Harman and Mr Süleyman Moçu against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 36217/97, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 165 and assigned to Kevin Boyle and Tim Otty as leads) regarding the death of the first, second, fourth and sixth applicants’ relatives and the forced eviction and destruction of the family homes and possessions of all of the applicants. The applicants also applied on their own behalf where they alleged to have suffered destruction of property and on behalf of their deceased relatives who were killed during the incidents that took place in Yolçatı village between 13 and 18 May 1994. On 18 January 2005, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that there had been a violation of Article 2 of the Convention on account of the failure of the authorities of the respondent State to conduct an adequate and effective investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the first, second, fourth and sixth applicants’ relatives, and that there had been a violation of Article 13 of the Convention in respect of the first, second, fourth and sixth applicants’ complaints concerning the death of their relatives. The Turkish Government were ordered to pay the first, second, fourth and sixth applicants €15,000 each in non-pecuniary damages and €10,000 globally in legal costs and expenses. The full judgment is available for viewing at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?i=001-67984.
Materials in the file include the initial application of 12 November 1994 including witness statements and appendices, supplementary documents on military operations in Lice, and a 4 April 1997 resubmission of the application with further appendices.

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