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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject: Cyprus cases against Turkey |
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Cyprus cases against Turkey
Angelos Marcopoulos reports from Strasbourg
The European Court of Human Rights is currently reviewing all the outstanding cases against Turkey involving violations in Cyprus, including nine cases on missing Greek Cypriots, a senior official of the Court said.
"We are currently reviewing the overall situation of pending cases concerning Cyprus v Turkey,'' Vincent Berg, the director of the Court's section with the most Cypriot cases before it told The Cyprus Weekly.
"There is also a package of some nine cases dealing with missing people where the Court is readying its verdicts,'' he said, adding that this will be the first time that the Court will pronounce judgement on cases brought by the families of missing Greek Cypriots.
In addition the Court is also preparing its final judgement on the notorious double murder by a Turkish Cypriot mob and Turkish troops of Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomou during a demonstration on the Green Line outside Famagusta seven years ago. Isaac was bludgeoned to death by club-yielding civilians and soldiers, while Solomou was shot dead while climbing a flagpole to haul down a Turkish flag.
Berg said that Isaac's family lodged its application before the Court in 1998. The case was communicated to the Turkish government then "and there is no reason to delay any more," he said.
The long delays in cases before the Court dealing with Turkish violations in Cyprus was also remarked on by Marcel Gleesener of Luxembourg who is the Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. "I think that the CoE must soon send a message to Turkey (about these delays),'' he told The Cyprus Weekly. |
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