Published on 17 July 2023
SECOND SECTION
Application no. 21166/20
Beytullah ALTUNTEPE against Türkiye
and 6 other applications
(see list appended)
communicated on 28 June 2023
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The applications concern the refusal of the domestic authorities to grant the applicants, who were detained at the time of the events, permission to have telephone calls with their school-age children at weekends or outside of school hours.
The applicants complain of a violation of their rights under Article 8 of the Convention.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
1. Has there been an interference with the applicants’ right to respect for their private and family life and correspondence, within the meaning of Article 8 § 1 of the Convention, on account of the impugned restrictions on telephone calls (see Subaşı and Others v. Türkiye, nos. 3468/20 and 18 others, § 105, 6 December 2022)?
2. If so, was that interference in accordance with the law and necessary in terms of Article 8 § 2 of the Convention? In particular, did the domestic authorities make a concrete assessment of the applicants’ needs and engage with their complaints in accordance with the guarantees inherent in Article 8 of the Convention (ibid., §§ 106‑09)?
In application no. 3759/21, the parties are also requested to submit a copy of the relevant document(s) specifying the date of service of the Constitutional Court’s decision of 2 July 2020.
APPENDIX
No.
Application no.
Case name
Lodged on
Applicant
Year of Birth
Represented by
1.
21166/20
Altuntepe v. Türkiye
28/04/2020
Beytullah ALTUNTEPE
1975
2.
44587/20
Pekel v. Türkiye
25/09/2020
Şevket PEKEL
1974
3.
48209/20
Halitoğlu v. Türkiye
29/09/2020
Coşkun HALİTOĞLU
1973
4.
54635/20
Öztürk v. Türkiye
20/11/2020
Osman ÖZTÜRK
1979
5.
55622/20
Erten v. Türkiye
09/11/2020
Derviş ERTEN
1982
6.
3425/21
Akdemir v. Türkiye
31/12/2020
Sedat AKDEMİR
1976
7.
3759/21
Kufacı v. Türkiye
11/01/2021
Murat KUFACI
1977
Selim MORAVA