Item 1 - Applicant's Observations on Government Documents Submitted 16 August 1999

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Draft of the applicant's observations on the domestic investigation documents submitted by the Turkish Government on 16 August 1999. The observations note that it took three years for the Government to respond to the request to submit the investigation files, and this combined with the documents in said files demonstrates an unwillingness to seriously investigate the Savaş Buldan murder. Appended are English translations of statements of the Bakırköy Chief Public prosecutor, and a witness statements taken by police from Sebahattin Uz, the doorman at the Çınar Hotel who witnessed Buldan's abduction (these appendices appear in the file table of contents as Appendices A, B, and C). The draft is enclosed by an unsigned letter to Sheldon Leader asking for his thoughts on the observations and listing questions they may want to follow up on as the case proceeds. The above documents are enclosed by a letter from Leader and Kevin Boyle to the European Court of Human Rights.

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