Sub-file 1 - Correspondence

105 items

Correspondence authored, received, and/or compiled by Kevin Boyle, Aisling Reidy, and Françoise Hampson pertaining to the Bilgin 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; correspondence attempting to clarify İhsan Bilgin's age resulting from an error on his birth certificate; correspondence regarding the Government coercion of Bilgin into signing a 9 August 1995 statement denying that he had applied to the Commission, including Bilgin's statement to the Commission of 21 August 1995 refuting his 9 August statement; İhsan Bilgin's 30 August 1995 declaration of means; composition of the Chamber hearing the case; documents pertaining to the hearing in the case held on 10-14 March 1997 in Ankara including lists of witnesses and attempts to contact them; requests from the applicant's representatives requesting extensions for document submissions; responses to the offer of legal aid to the applicant from the Commission; the 30 October 1999 transfer of the case from the Commission to the Court; letters from the Court requesting information from the applicant’s representatives; letters from the Court which accompanied submitted documents and observations received from the Government; offers of legal aid from the Court; letters from the Court associated with the delivery of the case judgment; letters regarding the applicants' claims for just satisfaction; schedules of professional fees and costs; correspondence regarding the 26 October 2000 adoption of the judgment of the case; 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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