File 1 - Correspondence

79 items

Correspondence authored, received, and/or compiled by Kevin Boyle, Aisling Reidy, and Françoise Hampson pertaining to the Takin 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: letters which accompanied documents and observations submitted on behalf of the applicants; requests on behalf of the applicant for extensions of document submission deadlines; Salih Tekin’s 27 July 1995 declaration of means; correspondence pertaining to the errant report that the applicant had been taken into custody on 6 October 1995 (it was revealed that it was an unrelated person with the same name); correspondence pertaining to the 6-10 November 1995 and 7 March 1996 case hearings including lists of proposed witnesses; the case summary prepared by the Essex team in advance of the November hearings including a chronology of the case; the Commission’s 28 May 1997 referral of the case to the Court; Reidy’s letter of 10 June 1997 informing the Commission that the Diyarbakır Branch of the Human Rights Association was raided by security forces on 23 May 1997 and that materials relating to individual applications before the Commission and Court was removed by the forces; correspondence pertaining to the 25 March 1998 case hearing in Strasbourg including the offer of legal aid; the Court’s letter of 9 June 1998 informing that a judgment has been adopted; and correspondence pertaining to the payment of the judgment.

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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