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- 1995/06/02-2000/06/23
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Materials pertaining to the case filed on 3 November 1995 by brothers Mehmet Tangüner and M. Mehti Tangüner against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application no. 36218/97, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 222) regarding the burning of their homes and properties as a result of the destruction of the village of Uğrak, Bismil District, Diyarbakır Province by Turkish security forces on 4 May 1995 (the village would not be repopulated until 2000). The brothers note that they had been subjected to harassment and torture weekly by soldiers from the Kamışlı Gendarme Station (including beatings, stripping of clothes, and being forced to walk on thorns) and were accused of belonging to and/or aiding the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), in order to force them to leave the village. Both Tangüner brothers left the village with their families in the weeks immediately leading to the destruction of the village.
Materials in the file include: the 3 November 1995 notice of application, including statements of the applicants and letters authorising Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson as legal representatives; the completed application of 4 April 1997 including the statements and other appendices; and Hampson’s letter of 23 June 2000 to the European Court of Human Rights informing that she and Boyle are withdrawing as legal representatives in the case.
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A small piece of correspondence from the European Commission of Human Rights is closed for access until 1 November 2073.
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Turkish