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- 1992-1997
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Materials pertaining to the case filed by 12 members of the Diyarbakır branch of the Education and Science Workers Union, Eğit-Sen, against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 23143/93, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Cases 11 through 22 and assigned to Sheldon Leader as lead) alleging that they had been detained and threatened on 27 October 1992 at a meeting with the National Education Director (Nebahat Akkoç was one of the members of Eğit-Sen who was present; materials related to her separately filed application can be found at A44/43/1/3). The applicants stated that they had been continually harassed and threatened since the date of the meeting. After 3 April 1995, only applicant Yüksel Zengin, secretary of Eğit-Sen, was associated with the application number 23143/93 based upon a Commission decision to admit only her complaint regarding the disciplinary sanction she received (a 1/30 reduction in salary) after giving a written statement at a 17 April 1993 Eğit-Sen press conference without State authorisation. The remainder of the application was declared inadmissible. On 8 September 1997, the portion of the application pertaining specifically to Yüksel Zengin was also declared inadmissible by the Commission.
Notable materials available for access in the file include: 2 copies of the original application, including the statements of the applicants regarding the events, press coverage and published articles of the events, and the applicants’ letters of legal authorisation; a copy of Nebahat Akkoç’s application, which was referred to frequently in the Yokuş and others application and which contained many of the appendices used in Yokuş and others; and Yüksel Zengin’s 20 September 1995 to the observations of the Government.
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Correspondence from the European Commission of Human Rights, the Commission’s decisions on admissibility, and the observations and documents pertaining to the case submitted by the Turkish Government on 28 June 1995, are closed to access until 1 November 2073.
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