Interim resolution CM/ResDH(2014)185
Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
in the cases Varnava, Xenides-Arestis and 32 other cases against Turkey
(see the list of cases in the appendix)
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 25 September 2014
at the 1208th 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 (hereinafter “the Convention”) ;
Deeply deploring that to date, despite the interim resolutions adopted in the cases of Xenides-Arestis and Varnava[1], the Turkish authorities have not complied with their obligation to pay the amounts awarded by the Court to the applicants in those cases, as well as in 32 other cases in the Xenides-Arestis group, on the grounds that this payment cannot be dissociated from the measures of substance in these cases;
Recalling in this respect that in two letters addressed to their Turkish counterpart[2], the then Chairmen of the Committee of Ministers stressed on behalf of the Committee that the obligation to comply with the judgments of the Court is unconditional;
Found that the continued refusal to pay the sums awarded to the applicants amounts to a manifest breach of the obligation assumed by Turkey under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention to abide by the judgments of the Court;
DECLARES that this continued refusal by Turkey is in flagrant conflict with its international obligations, both as a High Contracting Party to the Convention and as a member State of the Council of Europe;
EXHORTS Turkey to review its position and to pay without any further delay the just satisfaction awarded to the applicants by the Court, as well as the default interest due.
Appendix
List of cases
-One case against Turkey concerning missing Greek Cypriots
Application
Case
Judgment of
Final on
16064/90+
VARNAVA AND OTHERS
18/09/2009
Grand Chamber
-33 cases against Turkey concerning interference in property rights and/or respect for home (properties in the northern part of Cyprus)
Application
Case
Judgment of
Final on
46347/99
XENIDES-ARESTIS
22/12/2005
07/12/2006
22/03/2006
23/05/2007
16094/90
ANDREOU PAPI
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
18360/91
ANDREOU SOPHIA
27/01/2009
22/06/2010
06/07/2009
22/11/2010
16085/90
CHRISTODOULIDOU
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
16219/90
DEMADES
31/07/2003
22/04/2008
31/10/2003
01/12/2008
16259/90
DIOGENOUS AND TSERIOTIS
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
18405/91
ECONOMOU
27/01/2009
22/06/2010
06/07/2009
22/11/2010
19900/92
EPIPHANIOU AND OTHERS
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
18403/91
EVAGOROU CHRISTOU
27/01/2009
22/06/2010
06/07/2009
22/11/2010
41355/98
GAVRIEL
20/01/2009
22/06/2010
06/07/2009
22/11/2010
37395/97
HADJIPROCOPIOU AND OTHERS
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
39970/98
HADJITHOMAS AND OTHERS
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
35214/97
HAPESHIS AND HAPESHI-MICHAELIDOU
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
38179/97
HAPESHIS AND OTHERS
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
18364/91
IOANNOU
27/01/2009
22/06/2010
06/07/2009
22/11/2010
43685/98
IORDANIS IORDANOU
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
46755/99
IORDANOU ANTHOUSA
24/11/2009
11/01/2011
10/05/2010
20/06/2011
21887/93
JOSEPHIDES
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
18407/91
KYRIAKOU
27/01/2009
22/06/2010
06/07/2009
22/11/2010
16682/90
LOIZOU AND OTHERS
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
24/05/2011
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
28/11/2011
15973/90
LORDOS AND OTHERS
02/11/2010
10/01/2012
11/04/2011
09/07/2012
18361/91
MICHAEL
27/01/2009
22/06/2010
06/07/2009
22/11/2010
18406/91
NICOLAIDES
27/01/2009
22/06/2010
06/07/2009
22/11/2010
16091/90
OLYMBIOU
27/10/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
36705/97
ORPHANIDES
20/01/2009
22/06/2010
06/07/2009
22/11/2010
29092/95
RAMON
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
46159/99
ROCK RUBY HOTELS LTD
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
16160/90
SAVERIADES
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
47884/99
SKYROPIIA YIALIS LTD
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
16161/90
SOLOMONIDES
20/01/2009
27/07/2010
06/07/2009
22/11/2010
16082/90
STRATI
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
16078/90
VRAHIMI
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
16654/90
ZAVOU AND OTHERS
22/09/2009
26/10/2010
01/03/2010
11/04/2011
[1] Interim Resolutions CM/ResDH(2008)99 and CM/ResDH(2010)33, adopted respectively in 2008 and 2010 in the case of Xenides-Arestis and Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2013)201, adopted in 2013 in the Varnava case.
[2] Letters sent respectively in October 2009, in the case of Xenides-Arestis, and in April 2014, for all these cases.
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