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Copies (in Turkish with English translations) of both petitions filed by Feride Çiçek, daughter of Hamsa Çiçek, with the Diyarbakır State Security Court regarding the disappearances of Tahsin Çiçek, Ali İhsan Çiçek, and Çayan Çiçek.

Schedule of damages, legal fees, and expenses claimed on behalf of Nebahat Akkoç and her legal team. Monetary amounts are stated in British pounds sterling.

Copy of Helsinki Watch, Vol. 4, Issue No. 12, June 1992, comprised of an article by Lois Whitman, 'Turkey - Eleven Deaths in Police Detention Since February; Three Were Children Who "Committed Suicide"'.

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 (both in the Elçi and others application and the Şahin and Şahin application) 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.

Two excerpted pages (pages 33 and 46) of a report published by the Law Society in conjunction with the Kurdistan Human Rights Project. The pages specifically refer to threats made to Sedat Aslantaş by anti-terrorist police, and the subsequent arrest warrant issued against him.

Copies of medical files (in Turkish with English translation) documenting Zeki Aksoy's hospitalisation and treatment for injuries suffered during his detainment by Turkish security forces, particularly the nerve damage and partial paralysis of his arms.

Memorial of the applicant in the Koçeri Kurt case (A44/43/1/43) submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, which was appended to the applicant's memorial in the Çakıcı case as a similar example of a case of forced disappearance in southeast Turkey that had been litigated in the Court. The Kurt judgment was referred to frequently throughout document pertaining to the Çakıcı case, including the final judgment.

Statements submitted by the applicants, Zülfi Akkum, Hüseyin Akan, and Rabia Karakoç ('Akkum and others'), as well as Gülüm Karakoç (daughter-in-law of Rabia Karakoç and widow of Derviş Karakoç) regarding the killings of Mehmet Akkum, Mehmet Akan, and Derviş Karakoç. Includes handwritten copies of the original statements in Turkish and typed translations in English.

Statement (in Turkish with English translation) of Mehmet Ali Avşar, brother of Şerif Avşar, made on 30 May 2000. He notes the harassment that he, his family, and other Kurds have experienced, and details the loss of the family fertiliser business as a result of the family being forced to migrate to various provinces of Turkey to escape local persecution. He also notes that the business' financial documents were confiscated by authorities and cannot be provided by the family as a result. This was submitted as Appendix 3 to the Applicant's Memorial in the Avşar case.

Transcript of an interview conducted by Timothy Otty and David Marshall of the Human Rights Committee of the Bar of England & Wales with Sait Avşar, brother of Mehmet Şerif Avşar and Behçet Avşar, at the Human Rights Association office in Diyarbakır. Sait was with Şerif at the family fertiliser business on 22 April 1994 when 5 men claiming to be gendarmes came to their premises to obtain a statement from Şerif regarding another brother, Abdulkerim, who had been remanded in custody in Diyarbakır prison. Şerif refused, stating he would give the statement to a uniformed officer if needed. In the ensuing argument, it became clear the 5 men were village guards, not gendarmes. Şerif was taken away from the premises at gunpoint. Sait and other family members followed the car and taxi which took the guards and Şerif to the Saraykapı gendarme station, where the Gendarmerie denied their brother's presence. They returned to their shop to call the police and report a kidnapping, to which the police replied that Mehmet Şerif was at the gendarme station. When the family stated that the Gendarmerie had just denied that he was there, the police hung up. At 4:30 pm on the same day, the family received a phone call at the house stating that 'We have dealt with your brother, we have killed him and you are all in the queue'. Sait concludes 'We have since heard nothing about our brother and have effectively given up hope of finding him alive.'