Resolution CM/ResDH(2019)59
Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Freedom of assembly cases against Turkey
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 14 March 2019 at the 1340th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
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 final judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases (see list in appendix) and to the violations of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, including the prosecution of participants and/or the use of excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations (violations of Article 11);
Recalling that other violations concern:
- failure to provide concrete and sufficient reasoning and to consider alternative measures for the applicants’ pre-trial detention (violation of Article 5, paragraph 1) in the case of Lütfiye Zengin and Others (36443/06) (this issue is being examined under the Nedim Şener group of cases (38270/11));
- failure to communicate to the applicants the prosecutor’s opinion before the Court of Cassation (Article 6 § 1) in the case of Uzunget and Others (21831/03) (this issue was examined under the Göç group of cases (see Final Resolution CM/ResDH(2011)307);
Recalling the respondent State’s obligation, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by all final judgments in cases to which it has been a party and that this obligation entails, over and above the payment of any sums awarded by the Court, the adoption by the authorities of the respondent State, where required:
- of individual measures to put an end to violations established and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and
- of general measures preventing similar violations;
Having invited the government of the respondent State to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the above-mentioned obligation;
Having examined the information provided by the government as regards the individual measures in these cases (see DH-DD(2019)14 and DH-DD(2019)197 and noted with regret, in the light of this information, that no further individual measures are possible in these cases; having moreover noted that the just satisfaction, where awarded, was paid by the government of the respondent State;
Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in these judgments continues to be examined within the framework of the freedom of assembly group (Oya Ataman group) of cases and that the closure of these cases therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures required;
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases as regards the individual measures and
DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.
Appendix
Application
Case
Judgment of
Final on
42899/11
ABDURRAHMAN TEKİN
25/09/2018
25/09/2018
31451/03
AÇIK AND OTHERS
13/01/2009
13/04/2009
65126/09
ADIGÜZEL AND OTHERS
13/02/2018
13/05/2018
19620/12
AKARSUBAŞI AND ALÇİÇEK
23/01/2018
28/05/2018
28495/06
AKGOL AND ET GOL
17/05/2011
17/08/2011
33245/05
AKMAN AHMET
13/10/2009
13/01/2010
32124/02+
ALDEMIR NURETTIN AND OTHERS
18/12/2007
02/06/2008
16408/10
ALİ ABA TALİPOĞLU
18/10/2016
18/01/2017
9829/07
ALI GUNES
10/04/2012
10/07/2012
26730/05
ARPAT
15/06/2010
15/09/2010
17561/04
ASICI AND OTHERS
15/06/2010
15/09/2010
26656/04
ASICI No. 2
31/01/2012
30/04/2012
6758/05
AYTAŞ AND OTHERS
08/12/2009
08/03/2010
25/02
BALÇIK AND OTHERS
29/11/2007
29/02/2008
30357/05
BIÇICI
27/05/2010
22/11/2010
26235/04
CANLI CEMALETTIN No. 2
09/02/2010
09/05/2010
36487/07
ÇELİK No. 3
15/11/2012
29/04/2013
17843/11
DİNÇER
16/01/2018
28/05/2018
38676/08
DİSK AND KESK
27/11/2012
29/04/2013
34027/03
DUR
18/09/2008
18/12/2008
44920/04
EKŞI AND OCAK
23/02/2010
23/05/2010
29835/05
GAZIOGLU AND OTHERS
17/05/2011
17/08/2011
17526/10
GÜLCÜ
19/01/2016
06/06/2016
29612/05+
GÜLER AND ÖNGEL
04/10/2011
04/01/2012
12903/02
GULIZAR TUNCER
08/02/2011
08/05/2011
8029/07
GÜN AND OTHERS
18/06/2013
18/09/2013
47532/09
HAKİM İPEK
10/11/2015
10/02/2016
238/06
İBRAHİM ERGÜN
24/07/2012
24/10/2012
44861/04
IZGI
15/11/2011
15/02/2012
16999/04
KARABULUT SAMÜT
27/01/2009
27/04/2009
33112/04+
KARATEPE AND OTHERS
07/04/2009
07/07/2009
12728/05
KOP
20/10/2009
20/01/2010
36443/06
LÜTFİYE ZENGİN AND OTHERS
14/04/2015
14/07/2015
8157/10
MESUT YILDIZ AND OTHERS
18/07/2017
18/10/2017
19631/12
ÖĞRÜ
17/10/2017
05/03/2018
60087/10+
ÖĞRÜ AND OTHERS
19/12/2017
28/05/2018
9049/06
ÖZALP ULUSOY
04/06/2013
04/09/2013
56395/08+
ÖZBENT AND OTHERS
09/06/2015
09/09/2015
23143/04
ÖZDEMIR NISBET
19/01/2010
19/04/2010
4572/06+
PEKASLAN AND OTHERS
20/03/2012
20/06/2012
68263/01
ŞAHIN AND OTHERS
21/12/2006
21/03/2007
4327/02
SAYA AND OTHERS
07/10/2008
07/01/2009
20129/07
SUBAŞİ AND ÇOBAN
09/07/2013
09/10/2013
22729/08+
SÜLEYMAN ÇELEBİ AND OTHERS (No. 2)
12/12/2017
12/03/2018
14958/07
TAŞARSU
18/12/2012
18/03/2013
12503/06
TIMTIK
09/11/2010
09/02/2011
52494/09
TÜFEKÇİ
22/07/2014
22/10/2014
23708/05
TUNCER GÜLIZAR
21/09/2010
21/12/2010
3224/03
TURAN BICER
30/11/2010
28/02/2011
42234/02
ÜMIT ERDEM
17/07/2008
17/10/2008
21831/03
UZUNGET AND OTHERS
13/10/2009
13/01/2010
37869/08
VATANDAŞ
15/05/2018
10/09/2018
863/04
YAŞAR EMINE
09/02/2010
09/05/2010
25499/04
YILMAZ SERKAN AND OTHERS
13/10/2009
13/01/2010
4524/06
YILMAZ YILDIZ AND OTHERS
14/10/2014
14/01/2015
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