Item 2 - Inspection and Research Record

11pp

Report of the Silvan District Governorate inspection of İhsan Bilgin's property, 23 November 1998. On instructions dated 23 November 1998 issued by the Silvan public prosecutor, an inspection team went to Yukarıgören. This team consisted of a gendarme of the Silvan District Gendarme Command, an official of the District Finance Office, an official of the Municipal Real Property Division, an official of the District Agricultural Office and two inhabitants of the village of Dutveren. Their joint report states: that the surface of the applicant’s collapsed house was 100 square metres, that it was in ruins, that it had not been burned or destroyed by the use of force but that the cause of the collapse was neglect and natural forces, that the applicant’s barn measured 150 square metres and, like the house, had collapsed as a result of neglect and natural forces, and that the applicant’s sheepfold measured 30 square metres and was in the same condition as the barn. Includes an English translation of the report and an enclosing letter from the European Court of Human Rights forwarding the report to Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson.

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