Communicated on 27 April 2018
SECOND SECTION
Application no. 76035/11
Günay AKÇAYÖZ and others
against Turkey
lodged on 2 November 2011
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the security operation conducted on 19 December 2000 in the Ümraniye Prison where the first three applicants’ relative Alp Ata Akçayöz and the remaining three applicants were being detained at the time of the events. During the operation eight persons were killed and a large number of others were injured. The first three applicants’ relative Alp Ata Akçayöz was among those who were killed and the remaining three applicants survived the operation. The first three applicants complain that their relative was killed in breach of Article 2 of the Convention. The remaining three applicants complain that their lives were endangered and that they were subjected to ill‑treatment during the operation in breach of their rights under Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. All applicants complain that no effective investigation was conducted into their complaints, contrary to Article 13 of the Convention.
QUESTIONS tO THE PARTIES
1. Has the right to life of the first three applicants’ relative Alp Ata Akçayöz and of the remaining three applicants, namely Özgür Sağlam, Cengiz Karakaş and Vedat Çelik, ensured by Article 2 of the Convention, been violated in t
