File 11 - Tab A (Correspondence regarding payment of just satisfaction

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Correspondence between Françoise Hampson, Aisling Reidy, Orhan Kemal Cengiz, and Caroline Nolan (Kurdish Human Rights Project) regarding the payment of costs awarded for just satisfaction in the Salih Çetin case. Most notable in this file is the statement (in Turkish with English translation) of 14 August 1997 given by Çetin to be given to the European Commission of Human Rights (via the KHRP) informing that Çetin had been told by the Kulp District governor that he had won his case and was told to go to the Foreign Affairs Commission and open an bank account to receive payment. All monies awarded in the case, including the awarded costs for legal fees, were then paid directly to Çetin without his being informed what the payment was for. This resulted in Çetin spending the money to pay off debts rather than reimbursing the costs under the impression that all of the money was his. He requests 'that I would not be put into difficulty for the money, which I later found out not to have belonged to me and which is impossible to pay [back] at the moment.' Some correspondence in this file is printed on fax paper and heavily faded to illegibility.

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