Item 6 - Applicant's Reply to Observations of the Turkish Government

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Reply of the applicant to the observations of the Turkish Government on the Koçeri Kurt application. The reply asserts that the bulk of the points made in the Government's observations 'are irrelevant to the allegations made by the applicant… …none address the specific complaints being made concerning Üzeyir Kurt's detention, maltreatment, and subsequent disappearance at the hands of the State.' The reply also notes that 'in claiming that its action was justified as a reasonable response to terrorism, the Government contradicts the essence of its own case, which is that it never did take Üzeyir Kurt into custody in the first place.' The reply notes that the supposed refutation of the application by Mrs Kurt will be addressed in separate correspondence (see A44/43/1/44/1 and A44/43/1/44/8).

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