File 1 - Correspondence

47 items

Correspondence authored, received, and/or compiled by Kevin Boyle, Aisling Reidy, and Françoise Hampson pertaining to the Eşref Yaşa 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: Yaşa’s supplementary statement of 9 November 1993 regarding death threats he received for applying to the Commission; 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 Şakar’s statement of 31 May 1994 (submitted 24 April 1995); Yaşa’s 14 July 1995 declaration of means; the Commission’s 9 July 1997 referral of the case to the Court; Yaşa’s letters of legal authorisation for Boyle, Hampson, and Osman Baydemir submitted 13 January 1998; correspondence pertaining to the 21 April 1998 case hearing in Strasbourg; and the Court’s letter of 10 August 1998 informing that a judgment will be adopted.
NOTE: 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.

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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