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- 1995/04/25-1997/13/07
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Materials pertaining to the case filed by Yurdanur Serhat and Firadus Karaalioğlu on 11 May 1995 against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Case 185) regarding the extrajudicial killings of their spouses, lawyer Medat Serhat and his chauffeur Ismail Karaalioğlu, in İstanbul on 11 November 1994. The Serhats and their driver, Ismail Karaalioğlu, were returning home from a wedding party when their car was cut off by a speeding vehicle. A man got out of the rear of the car and shot the Serhats and Ismail Karaalioğlu. Medat Serhat and Ismail Karaalioğlu were shot in the head and died; Yurdanur Serhat was injured and had several bullets removed from her body. The applicants stated that no serious investigation took place. On 13 June 1997, Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson withdrew as legal representatives in the case as per agreement with the Kurdish Human Rights Project. Materials in the file include the application with attached statements of the applicants, and the 12-13 June 1997 correspondence pertaining to Boyle and Hampson's withdrawal from the case (the page of correspondence from the KHRP printed on fax paper has faded to near-illegibility and may require scanning for viewing enhancement).
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