Resolution CM/ResDH(2011)307

Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
49 cases against Turkey mainly concerning the failure to communicate the prosecutor’s opinion before the Court of Cassation and/or the lack of an oral hearing

(see details in Appendix)

The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”);

Having regard to the judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee once they had become final;

Recalling that the violations of the Convention found by the Court in these cases mainly concern the breach of the applicants’ right to a fair trial on account of the failure to communicate to the applicants the prosecutor’s opinion before the Court of Cassation and/or lack of an oral hearing in compensation proceedings (violations of Article 6, paragraph 1) and also, in some cases, late payment of compensation granted by domestic courts (violations of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1) (see details in Appendix);

Having invited the government of the respondent state to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with its obligation under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention to abide by the judgments;

Having examined the information provided by the government in accordance with the Committee’s Rules for the application of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention;

Having satisfied itself that, the respondent state paid the applicants the just satisfaction provided in the judgments where applicable (see details in Appendix),

Recalling that a finding of violations by the Court requires, over and above the payment of just satisfaction awarded in the judgments, the adoption by the respondent state, where appropriate, of
- individual measures to put an end to the violations and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and

- general measures preventing similar violations;

DECLARES, having examined the measures taken by the respondent state (see Appendix), that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases and

DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.

Appendix to Resolution CM/ResDH(2011)307

Information on the measures taken to comply with the judgments
in 49 cases against Turkey mainly concerning the lack of an oral hearing and the failure to communicate the prosecutor’s opinion before the Court of Cassation and/or the lack of an oral hearing in compensation proceedings

Introductory case summary

These cases concern the breach of the applicants’ right to a fair trial on account of the non-communication to the applicants of the written opinion submitted by the Principal Public Prosecutor to the Court of Cassation on the merits, and/or the absence of an oral hearing (violations of Article 6§1 (in some cases in combination with Article 6§3)).

The cases of Apaydın, Deniz Faruk, Göktaş Ali, Göktaş and, Kılıç and Korkut also concern the late payment of compensation granted by domestic courts (violations of Article 1, Protocol No. 1).

I.	Payment of just satisfaction and individual measures

a) Details of just satisfaction

Case and Application	Judgment of	Final on	Pecuniary damage	Non-pecuniary damage	Costs and expenses	Total
Paid on	
GÖÇ Mehmet 36590/97	11/07/02	11/07/02	--	2 000 EUR	1 862,03 EUR	3 862,03 EUR
09/10/2002	
ÖZATA Zahide Songül
19578/02	20/10/2005	15/02/2006	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
15/08/2006	
DİNDAR 32456/96	20/12/2005	20/03/2006	--	1 000 EUR	210 EUR	1 210 EUR
01/06/2006	
AYÇOBAN and others
42208/02+	22/12/2005	22/03/2006	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
21/06/2006	
DOĞAN Halis 75946/01	07/02/2006	07/05/2006	--	--	315 EUR	315 EUR
20/07/2006	
IŞIK Mehmet Fehmi
62226/00	21/02/2006	21/05/2006	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
02/08/2006	
TOSUN 4124/02	28/02/2006	28/05/2006	No just satisfaction awarded	
HOCAOĞULLARI 77109/01	07/03/2006	07/06/2006	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
31/08/2006	
ŞAHİN Çağdaş 28137/02	11/04/2006	11/07/2006	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
10/10/2006	
KÖMÜRCÜ 77432/01	22/06/2006	22/09/2006	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
08/12/2006	
KABASAKAL and ATAR
70084/01+	19/09/2006	19/12/2006	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
07/03/2007	
SAĞIR
37562/02	19/10/2006	19/01/2007	--	--	1 500 EUR	1 500 EUR
19/04/2007	
DOĞAN Halis No.3
4119/02	10/10/2006	10/01/2007	No just satisfaction awarded	
MAÇİN No. 2
38282/02	24/10/2006	24/01/2007	--	--	1 500 EUR	1 500 EUR
20/04/2007	
KOÇAK and others
23720/02+	21/12/2006	21/03/2007	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
26/03/2007	
KAYA Öner 9007/03	10/04/2007	10/07/2007	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
21/09/2007	
TURĞAY 21085/02	12/04/2007	12/07/2007	No just satisfaction awarded	
YALÇIN
8628/03	03/05/2007	03/08/2007	No just satisfaction awarded	
SÖĞÜT 16593/03+	31/05/2007	31/08/2007	No just satisfaction awarded	
KAYMAZ 6247/03	26/06/2007	26/09/2007	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
14/12/2007	
DEMİREL Hünkar
10365/03	14/06/2007	14/09/2007	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
6/12/2007	
ÖZMEN and others
9149/03	14/06/2007	14/09/2007	No just satisfaction awarded	
YENİAY 14802/03	26/06/2007	26/09/2007	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
14/12/2007	
YURTSEVER Mesut
42086/02	19/07/2007	19/10/2007	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
15/01/2008	
MARTI
9709/03
	19/07/2007	19/10/2007	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
16/01/2008	
TAŞ Erdal No.5
29848/02	20/09/2007	20/12/2007	--	--	500 EUR	500 EUR
18/03/2008	
TAŞ Erdal No.2
13021/02	20/09/2007	20/12/2007	--	--	500 EUR	500 EUR
18/03/2008	
ÜNLÜ Suat 12458/03	15/01/2008	07/07/2008	No just satisfaction awarded	
ARSLAN Abdülkerim
67136/01	20/09/2007	31/03/2008	No just satisfaction awarded	
ÖLMEZ Cemal 7404/03	27/11/2007	27/02/2008	No just satisfaction awarded	
YAYAN
9043/03	27/11/2007	27/02/2008	No just satisfaction awarded	
GÖKTAŞ 66446/01	29/11/2007	29/02/2008	250 EUR	--	--	250 EUR
12/05/2008	
TAN Mehmet Zülfi
31385/02	04/12/2007	04/03/2008	No just satisfaction awarded	
APAYDIN
502/03	12/02/2008	12/05/2008	121 EUR	225 EUR	--	346 EUR
11/08/2008	
DENİZ Faruk 19646/03	12/02/2008	12/05/2008	2 480 EUR	3 000 EUR	--	5 480 EUR
11/08/2008	
KILIÇ and KORKUT
25949/03+	12/02/2008	12/05/2008	503 EUR	2 000 EUR	--	2 503 EUR
11/08/2008	
GÖKTAŞ Ali 9323/03	12/02/2008	12/05/2008	3040 EUR	3 000 EUR	--	6 040 EUR
11/08/2008	
KIZIL and others 1375/03	08/04/2008	08/07/2008	No just satisfaction awarded	
TEKELİOĞLU 16139/03	27/05/2008	27/08/2008	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR
19/11/2008	
DEMİRCİ 21843/02	03/06/2008	03/09/2008	No just satisfaction awarded	
BALABAN 4236/03	24/06/2008	24/09/2008	--	--	1 000 EUR
	1 000 EUR
18/12/2008	
UÇMA
15071/03 	04/03/2008	04/06/2008	No just satisfaction awarded	
KEŞ
17174/03 	02/12/2008	02/03/2009	--	--	2 000 EUR	2 000 EUR 29/05/2009	
DUMAN 17149/03 	27/01/2009	27/04/2009	--	--	1 900 EUR	1 900EUR
06/07/2009	
KARAKOÇ Şahin 19462/04 	29/04/2008	29/07/2008	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR 8/10/2008	
DEMİREL Hünkar No.2
12166/03	20/10/2009	20/01/2010	--	--	1 000 EUR	1 000 EUR 30/04/2010	
ARGA
27803/02 	28/07/2009	28/10/2009	No just satisfaction awarded	
ÇALIŞKAN 25506/03 	20/10/2009	20/01/2010	No just satisfaction awarded	
ŞENTÜRK 27577/04 	24/11/2009	24/02/2010	No just satisfaction awarded	

b) Individual measures

Taking into account the Committee’s Recommendation Rec(2000)2 and the particular circumstances of each case, it was considered that the violations found by the Court in these cases concern procedural shortcomings which were not serious enough to pose doubt as to the outcome of the domestic proceedings complained of and that the domestic decisions at issue are not contrary to the Convention with respect to the merits.

The just satisfaction provided in the European Court’s judgments has been paid to the applicants.

Consequently, no other individual measure was considered necessary by the Committee of Ministers.

II.	General measures

- Concerning the issue of the non-communication of the Public Prosecutor’s opinion, Article 297 of the new Code of Criminal Procedure, adopted on 17/12/2004 and entered into force on 01/06/2005, requires notification of written opinions of the Principle Public Prosecutor to parties by the competent chamber of the Court of Cassation.

- As far as the absence of a hearing in compensation proceedings is concerned, Article 142, paragraph 7 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that the competent court shall render its decision only after hearing a plaintiff, the public prosecutor and the representative of the Treasury.

- As far as the late payment of compensation granted by the domestic courts (Apaydın, Deniz Faruk, Göktaş Ali, Göktaş, and Kılıç and Korkut cases) is concerned, the measures had already been taken to prevent new violations of the same kind (see Resolutions ResDH(2001)70 and ResDH(2001)71 in the cases Aka and Akkuş against Turkey, respectively), in particular through the entry into force on 1 January 2000 of Law No. 4489, which brought the statutory rate of default interest into line with the annual rediscount rate applied by the Turkish Central Bank to short-term debts (the latter rate is fixed and permanently reviewed in accordance with the country’s inflation rate).

III.	Conclusions of the respondent state

The government considers that the measures adopted have fully remedied the consequences for the applicants of the violations found by the Court in these cases, that the general measures adopted will prevent similar violations and that Turkey has thus complied with its obligations under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention