File 1 - Correspondence

67 items

Correspondence authored, received, and/or compiled by Kevin Boyle, Aisling Reidy, and Françoise Hampson pertaining to the Ertak 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: letters which accompanied documents and observations submitted on behalf of the applicants; requests on behalf of the applicant for extensions of document submission deadlines; correspondence regarding the necessity of the Government to release various documents in order for the applicant to be able to submit his observations and the related charges against domestic lawyer Tahir Elçi (himself an applicant, see A44/43/1/28); correspondence pertaining to the 3-8 February 1997 case hearing in Ankara including lists of proposed witnesses; the applicant’s declaration of means submitted on 2 February 1997; correspondence regarding the applicants’ claims for just satisfaction; and correspondence pertaining to the 9 May 2000 case judgment.

Correspondence and associated materials within the file that were created by either the European Commission of Human Rights or the Government of Turkey are not permitted to be accessed until 1 November 2073.

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• Turkish