Sub-file 1 - Correspondence

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Correspondence authored, received, and/or compiled by Françoise Hampson, Aisling Reidy, and Kevin Boyle pertaining to the Cemil Kılıç 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; the letter of 13 August 1993 introducing the application; requests from the applicants' representatives requesting extensions for document submissions; letters from the Court requesting information from the applicants' representatives and accordant letters of acknowledgment of receipt; the 11 September 1995 comments on the Government’s submissions with regards to the trial of the alleged Hizbullah terrorists; materials pertaining to the 4-5 July 1997 case hearing, including lists of proposed witnesses; Hampson’s letters of 20 February 1998 and 6 April 1998 introducing elements of the Susurluk Report as evidence; the Court’s letter of 24 March 1999 informing that the Chamber has referred the case to the Court; the 23 March 1999 judgment of the Diyarbakır Third State Security Court (submitted by the Government on 8 September 1999) convicting Hüseyin Güney of being a member of a separatist organisation, the Hizbullah; materials pertaining to the 18 January 2000 case hearing, including procedural correspondence, lists of proposed witnesses, and granting of legal aid to the applicants; and Hampson’s report to the KHRP on the case hearing and the future of the litigation project; statements of means from many of the applicants submitted with regards to obtaining legal aid from the Commission; and the Court’s letter of 10 March 2000 informing that the Chamber has adopted its judgment in the case.

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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