File 86 - Salih Tekin 

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Supplementary materials pertaining to the case filed by Salih Tekin, a journalist for the newspaper Özgür Gündem, on 14 July 1993 against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 22496/93, later given European Court of Human Rights case number 52/1997/836/1042, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 6 and assigned to Kevin Boyle as lead) regarding his arrest and detention by gendarmerie in February 1993. Materials from the main casefile are located at A44/43/1/56.
Materials in the file include: 1) the statement and personal information of Salih Tekin used to complete his application; 2) a draft of the text of the application with annotations and corrections; 3) documents annotated and/or used as notes by Kevin Boyle (including his personal notes on foolscap and an annotated copy of Tekin’s supplementary statement to the Kurdistan Human Rights Project); 4) a compilation of Amnesty International articles published during 1993 documenting human rights abuses against ethnic Kurds in Turkey; 5) supplementary information Tekin compiled by the KHRP sent July 1994; 6) detailed typed cases notes sent 29 March 1996 from Boyle to Aisling Reidy; 7) statements (in Turkish with English translation) made by the applicant and his brother during 1995 and 1996 to Turkish officials and to the KHRP; 8) case comments from Boyle written during the preparation of memorial to be submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, March 1998; 9) published copies of the case judgment, 9 June 1998, in English and French.

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