Item 2 - Applicants' comments and submissions, submitted 20 December 1995

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Comments and submission submitted by the applicants to the European Commission of Human Rights on 20 December 1995 in response to the Commission’s invitation to comment on the Turkish Government’s submission of 27 November 1995. Includes:
1) Letter from Françoise Hampson to H.C. Krüger, Secretary to the European Commission of Human Rights, containing comments and enclosing the subsequent documents. Hampson notes the prolonged delays thus far in the openings of proceedings in Turkey against the gendarmes involved in the incident, and states that the applicants submit that it would be inappropriate to extend the adjournment of the case any further (20 December 1995, 3pp);
2) Statement of Rabia Karakoç via lawyer Mahmut Şakar, stating that there has been no progress over the past 2 years in prosecuting those responsible for her son’s death, that the Government has put no effort in finding the perpetrators, and her living situation continues to deteriorate with no help from the Government (in Turkish with English translation, 14 October 1994, 2pp);
3) Translation of a statement from Hüseyin Akan via lawyer Mahmut Şakar, stating that there has been no progress over the past 2 years in prosecuting those responsible for his brother’s death, that the Government has put no effort in finding the perpetrators (13 October 1994, 1p);
4) Translation of a statement from Abdurrahman Karakoç (brother of Derviş Karakoç), in which he states that that at no time had the Prosecutor contacted her or his mother, that his mother has been pressured into saying that guerrillas were responsible for killing but she refused, and that the only document she has signed is a request for an autopsy. (14 April 1995, 1p).

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