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- 1993/08/26-2000/01/25
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Correspondence authored, received, and/or compiled by Françoise Hampson, Aisling Reidy, and Kevin Boyle pertaining to the Mahmut Kaya 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; Mahmut Kaya’s 28 July 1995 declaration of means; and correspondence pertaining to the 20 January 1997 and 4-5 July 1997 case hearings in Strasbourg and 2-8 February 1997 case hearing in Ankara, including lists of proposed witnesses and Mahmut Kaya’s letter to the Commission of 12 January 1997 noting his difficulty in procuring a visa for the hearings.
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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 correspondence pertaining to friendly settlement negotiations, are not permitted to be accessed until 1 November 2073.
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Turkish