SECOND SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 66657/16
Kamile ONAR against Turkey
and 21 other applications
(see list appended)
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 12 April 2018 as a committee composed of:
Valeriu Griţco, President,
Jon Fridrik Kjølbro,
Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, judges,
and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the cases,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of applicants is set out in the appended table.
The applicants were represented by Mr Saim Bozkurt, a lawyer practising in Ankara.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of civil proceedings were communicated to the Turkish Government (“the Government”).
The Court received friendly-settlement declarations under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Turkey in respect of the facts giving rise to these applications, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amounts detailed in the appended table. These amounts will be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the Court’s decision. In the event of failure to pay these amounts within the above-mentioned three-month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on them, from the expiry of that period until settlement, at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points.
The payment will constitute the final resolution of the cases.
THE LAW
Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.
The Court takes note of the friendly settlement reached between the parties. It is satisfied that the settlement is based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the applications. In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to join the applications;
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 3 May 2018.
Liv TigerstedtValeriu Griţco
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil proceedings)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant name
Date of birth /
Date of receipt of Government declaration
Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration
Amount awarded for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses per applicant (in euros)[i]
66657/16
13/10/2016
Kamile Onar
01/01/1949
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,500
66691/16
12/10/2016
Aliye Onar
20/12/1974
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,500
66692/16
12/10/2016
Abdulkerim Muratoğlu
10/03/1971
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,500
66696/16
12/11/2016
Aydın Doğan
09/05/1976
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,500
66699/16
12/10/2016
İsmet Doğan
09/05/1974
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,500
66701/16
12/10/2016
Sadettin Onar
01/09/1969
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
66704/16
12/10/2016
Emin Gökmen
01/07/1934
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,500
66706/16
12/10/2016
Hakkı Akıl
01/01/1937
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
68478/16
18/10/2016
Sabri Doğan
01/07/1924
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
800
72157/16
16/11/2016
Rihan Barış
02/01/1933
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
72160/16
16/11/2016
Kenan Akdemir
04/06/1968
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
72897/16
18/11/2016
Vehbi Arslan
06/11/1978
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
72903/16
18/11/2016
Abdurrahman Akdemir
01/02/1953
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
72909/16
18/11/2016
Mevlüt Kılıç
08/03/1946
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
73567/16
18/11/2016
Medih Taş
25/08/1979
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
74023/16
18/11/2016
Ramazan Tekinbaş
14/04/1963
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
74051/16
16/11/2016
Mehmet Sabri Yar
20/11/1944
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
74410/16
18/11/2016
Kazım Erdem
14/01/1948
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,500
75097/16
11/10/2016
Mehmet Onar
01/01/1950
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,500
75113/16
13/10/2016
Mehmet Muratoğlu
25/07/1969
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
75114/16
13/10/2016
Mehmet Doğan
01/01/1939
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,500
75118/16
12/10/2016
Ekrem Onar
15/03/1970
14/12/2017
27/10/2017
1,300
[i]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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