File 66 - Salih Orhan

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Materials pertaining to the case filed by Salih Orhan against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 25656/94, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 168 and assigned to Tim Otty as lead) regarding the alleged burning and evacuation of Deveboyu hamlet, Çağlayan village, Kulp District, Diyarbakır Province and the apprehension and killing of his two brothers and his son during May 1994 by state security forces. On 18 June 2002, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that multiple violations of the European Convention on Human Rights had occurred. The Turkish Government were ordered to pay the Orhan family £90,000 sterling in damages and legal costs. The full judgment is available for viewing at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?i=001-60509.
Materials in the file include: the application of 24 November 1994, including the statement of the applicant and copies of petitions to state authorities; the 20 June 1995 applicant’s reply to the observations of the Turkish Government; the post of 2 June 1997 authorising Tim Otty to act as legal representative in the case and enclosing the applicant’s further submissions, including a copy of the Kurdish Human Rights Project’s November 1996 report on disappearances in Turkey.

Materials closed to access until 1 November 2073 include correspondence published by the Commission and the Turkish Government, the 20 June 1995 and 18 August 1995 observations of the Government on the application and attached appendices, and the 7 April 1997 published decision declaring the application admissible.

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