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- 1994/02/14-1994/09/26
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13pp
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Response of the applicants to the supplementary observations of the Turkish Government on the application of Elçi and others to the European Commission of Human Rights. The reply notes that the Government has ignored the evidence submitted in the complaints of four of the applicants, and that the delays in bringing the detained lawyers before an examining judge (which ranged from 6 to 26 days) in itself discloses a violation of the Convention. Attached (in Turkish with English translation) is a document (Appendix I) of 14 February 1994 from the Ministry of Justice Penal Works General Directorate to the Chief State Prosecution informing that adherence to the special 'lawyer's procedure' is mandatory in all circumstances, which thus means that the Government cannot claim that non-observance of the domestic procedure governing detention of lawyers was 'strictly required'.
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