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Printed discussion between the applicant's legal representative and Mustafa Ayzit of the Human Rights Association stating the lack of facility of the Turkish legal system to accommodate monolingual Kurdish speakers ('If the subject is a complainant, he or she is basically never listened to... ...Courts do not recognise the Kurdish language') and the de facto denial of the existence of the Kurdish language ('an unknown and unintelligible language') under Turkish law.

Statistical analysis of legal costs and expenses awarded by the European Court of Human Rights in judgments between 1 January 1993 and 31 October 1998 prepared for the Kurdish Litigation Project. The report examines the proportions of the cases in which the Court award was less than the claimed sum without giving reasons for reducing the fees and expenses claimed, and whether it made a difference if the fees and expenses claimed were challenged by the Commission/Government or not. The report was appended to the applicant's memorial in the İzzet Çakıcı case.

Letter from Hamsa Çiçek to H.C. Krüger, Secretary to the European Commission of Human Rights, authorising Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson as her legal representatives.

Article by Osman Turan, clinical psychologist, explaining traditional attitude toward women in Kurdish society, with special regard to the negative stigmas associated with women who are victims of sexual assualt and are thus considered 'defiled'. The article includes a clipping from the 13 October 1993 Özgür Gündem newspaper which mentions the sexual assault of Şükran Aydın by gendarmerie.

Response of the applicant in the Gülten Aytekin case to the questions set out in the European Commission of Human Rights' letter of 26 October 1995. The reply states that the killing of Ali Rıza Aytekin is a violation of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and that the lack of procedural safeguards in the failure to hold an impartial, thorough, and careful examination of the circumstance surrounding the killing is another violation of Article 2. The reply notes that the victim made no attempt to escape that would justify the use of gunfire to stop the vehicle.

Schedule of claims for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages and legal fees and expenses appended to the memorial of the applicant in the İzzet Çakıcı case submitted to the European Court of Human Rights regarding Çakıcı's claims for just satisfaction under Article 50 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Article (in Turkish with English translation) by Mahmut Şakar, 'Sexual Torture & Kurdish Women - A Sociological Study', submitted as an appendix on 5 April 1994. Şakar notes that Kurdish women who are stripped of their virginity after sexual assault are often the only ones punished within Kurdish society. Şakar also notes the lessened possibility to avenge such an act when it is committed by state officials such as in Şükran Aydın's case.

Pages 74-76 and 115 of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)'s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. The extracted pages discuss the high level of enforced of involuntary disappearances in Turkey, noting that the country led the world in reports of these types of cases in 1994.

Letter from Şükran Aydın to H.C. Krüger, Secretary to the European Commission of Human Rights, authorising Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson to be her legal representatives.

Report (Amnesty International publication number AI EUR 44/01/95) documenting cases of 'disappeared' people, torture of common criminals, trials against human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience, and other human rights abuses in southeast Turkey as a result of the conflict between the Turkish Government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The report accuses both sides of extrajudicial killings of Kurdish villagers, noting: that Turkish gendarmes reportedly torture, 'disappear' and execute villagers in the course of security raids on rural settlements, that the PKK execute village guards (Kurdish villagers paid and armed by the Government to fight the PKK) and kill their wives and children while paying lip-service to the Geneva Conventions; and that the PKK 'has a declared policy of "executing" teachers and other non-military government officials'. The report accuses the Government of denying that security forces have been involved in at least some of the killings.