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- 1992-1996
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Materials pertaining to the case filed on 3 January 1996 by Abdülsamet Yaman against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application no. 32446/96, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 209 and assigned to Jon Rud as lead). Yaman, formerly the Adana provincial leader of HADEP (People's Democracy Party), alleged that on 3 July 1995 he was taken into custody by police officers from the Adana Security Directorate. He alleges that he was blindfolded, put in a car, beaten and threatened. After being driven around for some time, still blindfolded, he was taken to the Adana Security Directorate, where he was interrogated about his association with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) and tortured. On 2 November 2004, the European Court of Human Rights found that numerous violations of the European Convention on Human Rights had occurred. The full judgment is available for viewing at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?i=001-67228
Materials available for access in the file include the application of 24 April 1996 including appendices (letter of authorisation, statements of the applicant and witnesses, and reports and article on state torture with focuses on Turkey) and correspondence from Kurdish Litigation Project members pertaining to the case.
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Correspondence from the European Commission of Human Rights is closed to access until 1 November 2073.
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Turkish