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- 1993-2000 (Creation)
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Materials pertaining to the case filed by İzzet Matyar on 24 January 1994 against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 23423/94, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 77 and assigned to Kevin Boyle as lead. later succeeded by Philip Lynch) regarding the damage and destruction caused to his home and property by security forces during an armed attack in the hamlet of Basoğ, Ormanici village, Silvan District, Şırnak Province on 24 July 1993. Mehmet Safi Aranacak (Case 76) was originally listed as a co-applicant, but the complaints introduced on his behalf were struck out as had died on 13 January 1994 before the application was lodged and the applicant’s representatives had been unable to contact his widow with a view to her continuing any complaints. Materials in the file include correspondence from the Kurdistan Human Rights Project forwarding the 28 July 1993 statements of İzzet Matyar and Mehmet Safi Aranacak to be submitted to the Commission, internal correspondence between Kevin Boyle, the KHRP, and the applicants’ domestic lawyer Meral Danış Beştaş, and a letter from the European Court of Human Rights of 9 March 2000. For the contents of the main casefile in this case, see A44/43/1/45.
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The observations of the Turkish Government in this file are closed to access until 1 November 2073.
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Turkish