File 1 - Correspondence

69 items

Correspondence authored, received, and/or compiled by Kevin Boyle, Aisling Reidy, and Françoise Hampson pertaining to the Berktay case. The correspondence is with the European Commission of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Kurdish Human Rights Project. Notable items within this correspondence accessible to the public include: the notice of application; letters which accompanied documents and observations submitted on behalf of the applicant; composition of the Chamber hearing the case; documents pertaining to the hearing in the case held on 17-21 November 1997 in Ankara including lists of witnesses and the statement of 17 October 1997 from Hüseyin Berktay; requests from the applicant's representatives requesting extensions for document submissions; the 13 January 2000 transfer of the case from the Commission to the Court; letters from the Court requesting information from the applicant’s representatives; the offer of legal aid to the applicant from the Court; letters from the Court which accompanied submitted documents and observations received from the Government; letters from the Court associated with the delivery of the case judgment; letters regarding the applicants' claims for just satisfaction which were affected by Devrim Berktay's 24 July 2000 diagnosis of schizophrenia and subsequent requests from the representatives to have the costs of his psychiatric evaluations covered which were rejected by the Court; correspondence regarding the 8 February 2001 adoption of the judgment of the case including a summary of the judgment prepared by Boyle; and correspondence regarding the payment of the awarded judgment.

Correspondence and associated materials within the file that were created by either the European Commission of Human Rights or the Government of Turkey, as well as all materials pertaining to friendly settlement negotiations, are not permitted to be accessed until 1 November 2073.

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