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"Handwritten draft of song beginning ""Agus suas I nfaille sead dol me leor"", index 16."

"Handwritten draft of song beginning ""Agus tritear damh sian"", from [ ] McHugh, index 22 (11)."

"Handwritten draft of song beginning ""Agus truagh gan me mo clarach"", from Mrs. Murphy."

Copy letter from Maureen Ahearn to Christopher T. Morris entitled Ahascragh and Castletown Conyers. Encloses a copy of a letter she received from a parent in Ahascragh. The letter is marked 'not to be quoted under any circumstances'. Includes an update on the situation in the school there. In her letter to C. T. Morris, Ms. Ahearn says she has heard from a parent in Castletown who says the situation there is largely the same. Their experience is at odds with what the Irish Association of Civil Liberties were told during their interview with the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education.

Final pleadings of the applicants in the Ayder and others case against Turkey. The pleadings state that 'No one (e.g. the Public Prosecutor) told the applicants to apply to the administrative court. It did not occur to them to do so because "It's the State that burned it. That's why they wouldn't have compensated me for the damage" (Doman, 1/139)... ...Unless they were willing to lie and to claim that the damage resulted from a clash, the cases show that they would have had no prospect of success.' The pleadings note that no statements were taken on the scene from the applicants, other witnesses, or Gendarmes. The pleadings restate the applicants' complaints under Articles 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 18, and Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and include a map drawn by Françoise Hampson of the Lice area.

Materials pertaining to the case filed by Ahmet Ayder, Yusuf Lalealp, Nadir Doman, Şevket Biçer, and Zeydin Ekmekçi (otherwise known as ‘Ayder and others’) against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 23656/93, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Cases 103 through 107 and assigned to Françoise Hampson as lead) regarding the destruction of their homes and property during an operation by security forces in the town of Lice in Diyarbakır Province, Turkey, on 22 October 1993 as part of what became known as the Lice Massacre.
On 22 October 1993, Brigadier General Bahtiyar Aydın, the regional commander of the Gendarmerie in Diyarbakır, was shot and killed in Lice under unclear circumstances. He was the highest-ranking Turkish commander to have been killed in the first nine years of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. Although the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) denied involvement in the assassination on the grounds that it did not want to provoke retaliatory attacks that could lead to civilian casualties, state media blamed Aydın's death on the group, and the Turkish military began an operation against the town soon afterwards. The massacre has thus been seen as a potential reprisal attack for the general's death. Turkish soldiers systematically moved throughout the town, randomly firing live ammunition at the mainly Kurdish civilians and destroying both residential and commercial buildings. By the end of 23 October, at least 30 residents had been killed and a hundred more were wounded, while an estimated 401 homes and 242 businesses were destroyed, according to the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, which described Lice as having become ‘ruined and burned out’. Little damage was inflicted to state buildings, however.
Turkish politicians, including Prime Minister Tansu Çiller, were prevented by the military from visiting the town in the weeks following the attack, and half of the civilian population quickly abandoned the town, which had effectively become non-existent. Throughout the following year, similar operations were carried out against numerous other Kurdish villages and towns throughout the region, leading to large-scale displacement of the civilian population. By 1995, there were "hardly any inhabited villages left" in Lice and neighbouring Kulp district. Such attacks were intended to intimidate the Kurdish population into not assisting the PKK or otherwise engaging in pro-Kurdish activity, thus cutting the PKK off from its local support bases.
The application was also brought on behalf of the applicants' spouses and dependent children. Şevket Biçer, moreover, also brought the application on behalf of his younger sister Huri. On 27 March 2003, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled that there had been violations of Articles 3, 8 and 13 and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Pecuniary costs were awarded as follows:
(i) €26,144.90 to Ahmet Ayder;
(ii) €20,239.70 to Yusuf Lalealp;
(iii) €20,239.70 to Nadir Doman;
(iv) €26,239.70 to Şevket Biçer;
(v) €20,144.90 to Zeydin Ekmekçi.
Each applicant was also awarded €14,500 in non-pecuniary damages, and the applicants’ legal representatives were awarded €40,000 less €725 in legal aid.
The full judgment is available for viewing at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?i=001-61560. Materials pertaining to the 16-18 June 1997 case hearing are located at A44/43/6/9.

Materials pertaining to the Ayder and others case hearing held on 16-18 June 1997. Materials for the main casefile are located at A44/43/1/12.

Memorial of the applicants in the Ayder and others case submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, including schedules of costs for just satisfaction.

File copy of the applicants' response to the memorial of the Turkish Government and the Government's response to the applicant's claims for just satisfaction in the Ayder and others case under Article 41 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Attached are: documents submitted with the applicants' original application establishing that the applicants sought damage determination assessments; page 81 of the verbatim record of the 1997 Ankara hearing which establishes that if applicants paid to have an assessment performed, it indicates that they took action to seek it from the court; a letter from an English solicitor indicating the hourly rate for legal costs awarded to a successful litigant in the lowest civil court in England.

Materials pertaining to the application filed by Ahmet Dizman on 31 March 1995 against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application 27309/95, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 160 and assigned to Kevin Boyle as lead) regarding the murder of her husband, Mustafa Hacı Dölek, by members of a Turkish military 'special action team' at their home. On 3 October 1994, Sefer Cerf, leader of the People's Democracy Party (HADEP) for Yüreğir District in Adana Province, and his friend, HADEP Management Committee member Rebih Çabuk, were fired upon at a café in Yüreğir. Cerf was killed immediately (the application of the victims' spouses is at A44/43/6/21). Ahmet Dizman attempted to take Rebih Çabuk to hospital; Rebih Çabuk died en route to hospital. The following day, Dizman was abducted by police and forced into a vehicle. The car drove in the direction of Kabaktepe and stopped in a deserted field. The applicant was taken out of the car. As soon as he got out, the police officers started to punch and kick him and to beat him with the butts of their guns, breaking his jaw. The police officers told the applicant that they had seen him at the funeral of Sefer Cerf and Rebih Çabuk the day before. They threatened him and told him that if he continued to be involved in such activities, his end would be like those of the dead HADEP members. The police officers questioned Dizman about a number of local people. The applicant was also forced to report the activities of local shopkeepers, who were allegedly selling the newspaper Özgür Ülke, a pro-Kurdish newspaper, and who were collecting money, presumably for the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). Dizman was threatened that if he did not report the political activities of these shopkeepers regularly, he would be killed.
Sait Macir, also a board member of HADEP, was inside the café at the time of the shooting and went outside to help the two victims. He told the authorities that he had seen the two assailants running away from the scene. Macir was taken to a police station on the pretext of giving a statement but was instead questioned about his relationship with Sefer Cerf. His café was closed by the police and he was subjected to continuous harassment after the incident. On 30 December 1994 Macir was himself shot and killed outside the same café (see A44/43/6/59).
On 7 March 2000, Kevin Boyle withdrew as legal representative in the case. Litigation was ultimately handled by Anke Stock of the Kurdish Human Rights Project. On 20 September 2005 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that there had been violations of Article 3 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The applicant was awarded €5,000 in pecuniary damages, €15,000 in non-pecuniary damages, and €8,000 in legal costs and expenses. The full judgment is available for viewing at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?i=001-70162
Materials in the file available for viewing include the 31 March 1995 application of Ahmet Dizman to the European Commission of Human Rights, the reply of the applicant to the Government’s observation on the application, domestic investigation documents submitted by the Turkish Government to the Court, the European Court of Human Rights’ decision on the admissibility of the application (the full decision is available for viewing at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-5104), correspondence from the Court, Kevin Boyle’s personal schedule of fees incurred, and the letter of 7 March 2000 from Kevin Boyle informing the Court that he is withdrawing as legal representative in the case. The Government’s observations of 16 April 1996 are closed to access until 1 November 2073.