File 88 - İsak Tepe

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Materials pertaining to the case filed on 4 May 1995 by İsak Tepe against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 27244/95, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 176 and assigned to Nicholas Stewart as lead, later transferred to Philip Leach of the Kurdish Human Rights Project after Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson withdrew as representatives in the case on 16 February 2000) concerns the applicant’s allegations that his son, Mr Ferhat Tepe, was abducted and killed by undercover agents of the Turkish state in mid-1993 after being charged with aiding and abetting the PKK. On 9 May 2003,, the Court ruled unanimously that there had been a violation of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights on account of the national authorities’ failure to carry out an adequate and effective investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the applicant’s son. Tepe was awarded €14,500 in pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages and €14,500 in legal costs and expenses (less €2,922.97 received in legal aid). The full judgment is available for viewing at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?i=001-61089
Materials in the file include: the original application including appended statements and petitions of the applicant and witnesses; correspondence sent by the Commission (CLOSED UNTIL 2073/11/01); further petitions submitted by Tepe to State bodies; photocopies of photographs of Ferhat Tepe (NOTE: graphic content); preliminary observations of the Turkish Government including domestic investigations files and witness testimony (CLOSED UNTIL 2073/11/01); the applicant’s replies to the Government’s observations including an appended Amnesty International report on the March 1996 detention of the applicant; lists of witnesses proposed by the applicant; and correspondence between the European Court of Human Rights, Philip Leach, and Bill Bowring during February, March, and April 2000 regarding legal representation in the case and the upcoming Court hearing.

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