File 68 - Ahmet Özkan and others

17 sub-files

Materials pertaining to the case filed by 32 Turkish nationals (“the applicants”) on their own and their relatives' behalf (application number 21689/93, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 60 and assigned to Tony Fisher as lead) against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights on 8 April 1993 regarding a military raid conducted on 20 February 1993 on the village of Ormaniçi and related events, including the death of two children, the taking into detention of the male villagers, the conditions in which these villagers were held in detention, their treatment in detention, and the death of one villager in detention. On 6 April 2004, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that violations of the European Convention of Human Rights has occurred and awarded damages to 27 applicants; the full judgment is available for viewing at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?i=001-61696.
Materials in the file include:
1) Personal information forms filled out by some of the applicants in advance of the application during March and April 1993
2) Copy of the application filed 8 April 1993 by lawyer Tahir Elçi on behalf of the applicants (CONTENT WARNING: includes graphic colour photographs of injuries to some of the applicants resulting from torture)
3) Correspondence pertaining to the case created by the legal representatives between 8 May and 21 January 1998, including correspondence from Kevin Boyle, Tony Fisher, Tahir Elçi, and Osman Baydemir
4) ‘Ertak file’ containing Turkish documents pertaining to the Ertak case (A44/43/3/31, A44/43/6/38), which was cited in the judgment of Özkan and others (CLOSED UNTIL 2073/11/01)
5) Observations of the Turkish Government (in French with appendices in Turkish and English translation) sent 14 December 1993 others (CLOSED UNTIL 2073/11/01)
6) Letters of authorisation (signed during 1993, sent 24 February 1994) authorising Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson to act on behalf of the applicants alongside Tahir Elçi
7) Correspondence sent by the Commission and/or the Turkish Government between 25 March 1994 and 24 June 1998, including the 16 January 1996 published decision of admissibility, correspondence pertaining to the spring 1998 case hearing in Ankara, and enclosed documents from the Government (CLOSED UNTIL 2071/11/01)
8) Comments of the Turkish Government, sent 9 March 1995 (CLOSED UNTIL 2071/11/01)
9) Supplementary information and documents submitted by the Turkish Government, sent 9 May 1995 (CLOSED UNTIL 2071/11/01)
10) Documents submitted by the Turkish Government on 14 June 1996 (CLOSED UNTIL 2071/11/01)
11) Documents received from the Kurdish Human Rights Project on 17 December 1997
12) Applicant statements and letters of authorisation from applicants forwarded by Tahir Elçi on 26 November 1997 (in Turkish with English translation)
13) Further statements (in Turkish) forwarded by Tahir Elçi on 19 January 1998 in preparation for the case hearing
14) Family trees of the applicants drawn for context purposes prepared by Nathalie Boucly, legal officer, KHRP
15) Detailed case report on the Özkan and others case prepared by Nathalie Boucly, legal officer, KHRP in preparation for the case hearing, including biographical information on the applicants and others involved in the case, lists of injuries and deaths, summaries of applicant/witness statements, and translations of medical documents (5 March 1998)
16) Summary of the 5-10 October 1998 case hearing in Ankara, including evidence given, prepared by Tony Fisher
17) Observations of the Turkish Government submitted to the Commission on 25 March 1999 (CLOSED UNTIL 2073/11/01)

Materials submitted by the Turkish Government via the European Commission of Human Rights are closed to access until 1 November 2073.

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