Sub-sub-series 4 - Zülfi Akkum, Hüseyin Akan, and Rabia Karakoç

15 files

Materials pertaining to the cases filed by Zülfi Akkum, Hüseyin Akan, and Rabia Karakoç (referred to as 'Akkum and others') against the Republic of Turkey with the European Commission of Human Rights (application number 21894/93, referred to internally within the Kurdish Litigation Project as Cases 34, 35, and 36 and assigned to Françoise Hampson and Aisling Reidy as leads). They are the father, brother and mother of Mehmet Akkum, Mehmet Akan, and Derviş Karakoç, who were killed, allegedly by members of the security forces, on 10 November 1992 in Kurşunlu and Kayaş villages, Dicle district, Diyarbakır province. These killings took place on the same day as the destruction of the adjacent village of Kelekçi (see A44/43/1/2). At the time of their deaths the applicants’ relatives were respectively 29, 70 and 33 years of age. The Turkish Government claimed that the killings were in self-defence in the course of an armed clash with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party). The European Court of Human Rights ruled on 24 March 2005 that Articles 2, 3, and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated, and awarded the plaintiffs compensation from the Turkish Government. The full judgment is available for viewing at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?i=001-68601.

The files in this sub-sub-series are equivalent to Tabs 1 through 14 in Hampson's filing system, plus an untabbed section which was labelled 'Front of file: Documents/evidence: location and content'.