File 10 - Government's memorial and verbatim record

4 items

Materials pertaining to the 26 January 1998 case hearing held in Strasbourg in the Kurt case, including:
1) Memorial (in English) of the Turkish Government submitted 3 November 1997. The Government accuses Mrs Kurt of inconsistent testimony and states 'The Government reject the idea of being governed by a practice or a certain law to which they have not consented to... ...implications of this tendency of the Commission to establish parallels between Turkey and Latin America is not acceptable. Its new practice of attaching to its reports about Turkey annexes with negative implications and suggestions is not acceptable (3 November 1997, 13pp);
2) Government's observations (in French) on the applicant's claims for just satisfaction under Article 50 of the European Convention Human Rights; the Government asks for the claims to be rejected as they are 'exorbitant' (22 January 1998, 5pp, 2 copies)
3) Press materials pertaining to the hearing, including a seating chart of the Court Chamber and 2 copies of a French-language press release describing the case (26 January 1998, 5pp);
4) Verbatim record (in English) of the case hearing held on 26 January 1998 with enclosing letter from the Court of 27 January 1998 (41pp)

• English

• French