File 1 - Correspondence

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Correspondence authored, received, and/or compiled by Bill Bowring, Kevin Boyle, and Françoise Hampson pertaining to the Çelikbilek 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; 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 2 July 1999 notice of the Court that application was declared admissible on 22 June 1999; Bowring and Boyle's request of 4 August 199 9 the Court to carry out in investigation of the case to provide clarification of the case facts; 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; a 13 September 1999 fax from lawyer Cihan Aydın providing Abdurrahman Çelikbilek's statement of 8 September 1999 regarding his detainment and various witnesses; the 23 November 1999 decision of the Court not to take oral evidence in the case; letters from the Court associated with the delivery of the case judgment; letters regarding the applicant's claims for just satisfaction; the schedule of pecuniary damages; and the Turkish Government's 19 May 2000 observations on the applicant's claims for just satisfaction.

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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