Resolution CM/ResDH(2022)231
Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Two cases against Türkiye
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 22 September 2022
at the 1443rd meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
18650/05
SODAN
02/02/2016
02/05/2016
36607/06
YILMAZ
04/06/2019
04/09/2019
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 and to the violations established;
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 action report provided by the government indicating the measures adopted to give effect to the judgments, including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2021)1090);
Noting that the necessary general measures concerning the excessive length of domestic proceedings were examined in the context of Ormancı group of cases and Ümmühan Kaplan pilot judgment (see Final Resolution CM/ResDH(2014)298);
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases and
DECIDES to close the examination thereof.