SECOND SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 23621/08
Ahmet TİĞİZ
against Turkey
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 22 January 2019 as a Committee composed of:
Paul Lemmens, President,
Jon Fridrik Kjølbro,
Ivana Jelić, judges,
and Hasan Bakırcı, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 5 May 2008,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the case,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The applicant, Mr Ahmet Tiğiz, is a Turkish national, who was born in 1948 and lives in Batman. He was represented before the Court by Mr Şakir Toğluk, a lawyer practising in Batman.
The Turkish Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent.
The application concerns the de facto expropriation of the applicant’s land by the administration without having recourse to the formal expropriation procedure. The applicant relied on Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention. On 28 June 2018 the application was communicated to the respondent Government.
On 8 November 2018 and 10 September 2018 the Court received friendly settlement declarations signed by the parties under which the applicant agreed to waive any further claims against Turkey in respect of the facts giving rise to this application against an undertaking by the Government to pay him 1,500 euros to cover any pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses, which will be converted into Turkish liras at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be free of any taxes that may be applicable. It will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the decision taken by the Court. In the event of failure to pay this sum within the said three-month period, the Government undertook to pay simple interest on it, 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 case.
THE LAW
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 its Protocols and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the application. In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 14 February 2019.
Hasan BakırcıPaul Lemmens
Deputy RegistrarPresident
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