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- 1996/10/24-2003/11/26 (Creation)
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10 items
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Documents originally placed in sleeves by the Essex legal team at the front of the Mehmet Kaya casefile binder, including: the 24 October 1996 report of the European Commission of Human Rights (CLOSED UNTIL 2073/11/01); memorial of the Turkish Government submitted on 25 June 1997 claiming that there is no proper applicant in this case for the purposes of the Convention and that the applicant's brother was killed in self-defence by security forces during a clash with the PKK; materials pertaining to the 21 October 1997 European Court of Human Rights case hearing in Strasbourg including the court's press release on the case, Françoise Hampson's speech to the Court on behalf of the applicant, and the verbatim record of the hearing; Leyla Kaya's statement of 30 November 1997 detailing her and her family's detainment and interrogation by Turkish military forces on 24 October 1997 following the case hearing; and correspondence pertaining to the distribution and payment of the awarded judgment.
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Conditions governing access
Materials within the file that were created by the European Commission of Human Rights are not permitted to be accessed until 1 November 2073.
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Language of material
English
Turkish