File 7 - Correspondence

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Correspondence authored, received, and/or compiled by Kevin Boyle, Aisling Reidy, and Françoise Hampson pertaining to the Sultan Sabuktekin case. The correspondence is with the European Commission of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the Kurdish Human Rights Project, and the Diyarbakır-based legal team members. Notable items within this correspondence accessible to the public include: the letter of 24 March 1995 introducing the application; letters which accompanied documents and observations submitted on behalf of the applicants; requests on behalf of the applicant for extensions of document submission deadlines; a diagram of the crime scene received 9 September 1998; questions on case facts posed by the Commission on 8 October 1998; Sultan Sabuktekin’s statement of 21 June 1999; the 30 October 1999 reference of the case by the Commission to the Court; the legal representatives’ schedules of professional fees and costs; Diyarbakır lawyers Cihan Aydın and Reyhan Yalçındağ’s handwritten translations of new statements of Sultan and Halil Sabuktekin, plus Aydın's summary of case facts, sent to Hampson on 7 April 2000; the Court’s 10 April 2000 offer of legal aid; the applicant’s 18 April 2000 declaration of means and power of attorney submitted to the Court; correspondence between the Essex team and the Diyarbakır team regarding distribution and payment of legal aid; the Court’s 19 March 2002 letter which accompanied the case judgment, and Hampson’s report of the same date summarising the judgment in which she laments the lack of fact-finding hearings facilitated by the Commission or the Court (Hampson warns that the trends toward no fact-finding and imposed friendly settlements ‘strikes a very serious warning note for the future of the Court’).

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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