Resolution CM/ResDH(2024)123
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Kallis and Androulla Panayi against Turkey
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 13 June 2024
at the 1501st meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
45388/99
KALLIS AND ANDROULLA PANAYI
27/10/2009
27/01/2010
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 judgment transmitted by the Court to the Committee in this case and to the violation established on account of the killing in 1996 of the applicants’ son, a Greek Cypriot soldier, due to excessive use of firearms by Turkish or Turkish-Cypriot military forces and of the lack of effective and impartial investigation;
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 indicating the individual measures adopted to execute the judgment including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see documents DH-DD(2022)28; DH-DD(2023)21; DH-DD(2023)428;
DH-DD(2024)350);
Noting with regret that no further individual measures appear possible, given that in 2021 the Attorney General’s Office concluded that the passage of time made further fact-finding difficult and that the use of firearms was lawful based on the facts established in the original investigation, which could address, as far as possible, the criticism that the original investigation was not independent; and that it is clear from the above review and additional information that the rules of engagement at the time had been deficient and had been interpreted in a manner allowing excessive use of firearms;
Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in this judgment continues to be examined within the framework of the Kakoulli case, also in the light of the Court’s findings in this case, and that the closure of this case therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures;
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in this case;
CONCLUDES that no further individual measures appear possible;
DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures in the case of Kakoulli;
DECIDES to close the examination of this case.