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Official indictment (in Turkish with English translation) in the Diyarbakır State Security Court on 22 December 1993 against 23 people, including the applicants in the Elçi and others case and certain prison officers, on charges of being members of and acting for the PKK. Some of them were accused of other serious offences, such as helping PKK terrorists procure weapons, smuggling in and out of prison proscribed materials, such as cyanide or a knife, and receiving and implementing instructions from the PKK leadership.

Fax (in Turkish with English translation) from the Ministry of Justice to the Düzce public prosecutor informing about the application made to the European Commission of Human Rights by Nejdet Buldan. The Ministry's letter stated that there were no documents in the investigation file showing that attempts had been made to trace the cars used in the kidnapping despite the fact that eyewitnesses had given the authorities the full registration number of one of the cars and the prefixes of the other two cars. In addition, some witnesses who lived near the spot where the three persons had been killed had stated that they had heard gun shots and that the timing of the gun shots coincided with the time of the killing. The letter finally stated that although it was highly probable that further investigations would not produce any outcome, the investigating authorities should still take further steps in the investigation as this case would be scrutinised by the Commission which, in the past, had put prosecutors in difficulties when questioning them. The Ministry requested that the cars be traced, a check made as to whether witnesses could have heard the gun shots and whether any tyre marks had been subjected to forensic examination. It was also to be confirmed with the local gendarmerie whether or not any of the witnesses had informed them on the morning of 3 June 1994 that they had heard gun shots.

Statements (in Turkish with English translations) made during November and December 1993 by lawyer Mahmut Şakar of the Diyarbakır Branch of the Human Rights Association updating the Kurdish Human Rights Project about the ongoing arrests and detainments of the applicant lawyers, the refusal of officials to let the detained lawyers have contact with relatives, colleagues, or visiting delegations, and the eventual release of the lawyers

This is ancillary material for the collection, comprised of four DVDs with interviews conducted with Brendan Duddy in 2009. The following production titles apply to all four.

Production, research and interviews: Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh

Director and editor: Mick Ruane

Camera: Mark Byrne

Medical reports (in Turkish with English translations), mainly from the Diyarbakır Forensic Medical Institution of the Ministry of Justice, obtained by lawyer Mahmut Şakar of the Diyarbakır Branch of the Human Rights Association documenting the injuries suffered by the applicant lawyers in the Elçi and others case while imprisoned ('All these reports prove that the advocates were tortured and subjected to bad treatment').

Amnesty International report (Amnesty International publication number AI EUR 44/88/94) regarding the difficulties and dangers facing members of the Human Rights Association of Turkey, including descriptions of harassment, torture, imprisonment, threats, murders, and forced disappearances.

Photocopies of the title pages representing the submitted appendix; no subsequent content.

Report on the March 1994 visit of two Norwegian MPs to Turkey to investigate the arrests and detention of the defence lawyers in Diyarbakır and the subsequent April 1994 mission of Jon Rud of the Norwegian Bar Association to Diyarbakır. Rud describes his meetings with some of the lawyers and their representatives (including Tim Otty), describes their prison experiences and methods of torture used against them, the various charges laid against the lawyers in the indictment (in which complaining to the European Commission of Human Rights as a form of propaganda belittling Turkey was mentioned), and his own experiences of surveillance and harassment from security forces in Diyarbakır during his mission, including confiscation of a Swedish-language book Rud had borrowed from a Norwegian public library which showed pictures of Kurdish guerillas and referred to 'Kurdistan' in a map. Rud notes that his calls back home to Norway would be abruptly cut off if the phrases 'PKK' or 'Kurdistan' were mentioned, indicating wiretapping.

Summary of the Susurluk Report created by the European Commission of Human Rights to serve as Appendix II of its report on the application of Mahut Kaya against Turkey (application 22535/93).

Typed and handwritten copies of the file index, including titles, subjects, and dates of publication where available.