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Letters of authorisation from the applicants and/or relatives of detained applicants in the original Elçi and others application authorising Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson to be their legal representatives.

Statement (in Turkish with English translation) of the Diyarbakır branch of the Human Rights Association regarding the disappearance of Necati Aydın and Mehmet Ay from the State Security Building on 4 April 1994 and calling for urgent action to be taken in relation to the matter.

Witness statement of Serdar Özdemir, who was a taxi driver waiting at the taxi rank outside the Çınar Hotel and witnessed the abduction of Savaş Buldan, Adnan Yıldırım, and Hacı Karay from the hotel.

Statement (in Turkish with English translation) of Hüseyin Berktay to the European Commission of Human Rights (via Osman Baydemir and forwarded to the Kurdish Human Rights Project) regarding the harassment he has faced from Turkish officials since applying to the European Commission of Human Rights, his son Devrim's ongoing health challenges, and his continued lack of compensation for the incident. Hüseyin states that he, Devrim, and his wife Esma will all appear at the upcoming hearings in the case on 17-21 November 1997 in Ankara.

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. This was submitted as an appendix in the Kasım Aydın case.

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.

Photocopies of newspaper articles printed in The Guardian and Özgür Gündem on the disappearances from Alaca. Articles from Özgür Gündem are accompanied by English translations.

Statements (in Turkish with English translation) of Mehmet Nuri Ay and Mehmet Naili Aydın identifying two deceased bodies as those of their respective brothers, Mehmet Ay and Necati Aydın.

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.

Copy of United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/133 declaring any act of forced disappearance 'an offence to human dignity' and a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed 18 December 1992.