Mehmet Şah Şeker
person- Image
- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Workers
- Event description
Per ruling delivered by the European Human Rights Court on 21st February 2006, the father of Mehmet Şah Şeker, who disappeared on 9th October 1999 after leaving his workplace in Diyarbakır’s Bismil district, applied to various authorities; an investigation was launched by the Diyarbakır and Bismil Public Prosecutor’s Offices.
Mehmet Şah’s had had a dispute with an undercover police officer about a month before he went missing and had been receiving threats. The police claimed that Mehmet Şah had not been placed under custody.
As the legal process in Turkey dragged on, the family applied to the ECHR, which ruled in 2006 that articles 2 (right to life) and 13 (right to effective remedy) had been violated.
In 2002, the anti-terrorism division of the Diyarbakır police force alleged that at the time of his disappearance, Mehmet Şah was wanted by the police for his affiliation with the Hizbullah organization.
In 2005, the lawyer of the Şeker family claimed that he saw a copy of Mehmet Şah’s university ID in the court file against the Hizbullah leader. The family made a request but the prosecutor denied having the ID in the file.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.850055
Longitude: 40.66868800000001
- Geolocation
- City
- Diyarbakır
- District
- Bismil
- Date of disappearance
- Oct 9, 1999
- Year of disappearance
- 1999
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:23
- Status of the victim
- Still missing
- Type of source material
- ECHR decision
- Press release or report of human rights organisations
- Decision by the prosecution office
- Unknown
- Verdict of ECHR
- Violation of the right(s)
- Articles violated according to ECHR verdict
- Article 13: Right to an effective remedy
- Article 2: Procedural violation of the right to life
- Summary of the legal proceedings
Per ruling delivered by the European Human Rights Court on 21st February 2006, the father of Mehmet Şah Şeker, who disappeared on 9th October 1999 after leaving his workplace in Diyarbakır’s Bismil district, applied to various authorities; an investigation was launched by the Diyarbakır and Bismil Public Prosecutor’s Offices.
Mehmet Şah’s had had a dispute with an undercover police officer about a month before he went missing and had been receiving threats. The police claimed that Mehmet Şah had not been placed under custody.
As the legal process in Turkey dragged on, the family applied to the ECHR, which ruled in 2006 that articles 2 (right to life) and 13 (right to effective remedy) had been violated.
In 2002, the anti-terrorism division of the Diyarbakır police force alleged that at the time of his disappearance, Mehmet Şah was wanted by the police for his affiliation with the Hizbullah organization.
In 2005, the lawyer of the Şeker family claimed that he saw a copy of Mehmet Şah’s university ID in the court file against the Hizbullah leader. The family made a request but the prosecutor denied having the ID in the file.