Mehmet Şah İkincisoy
person- Image
- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Unknown
- Date body found
- Dec 6, 1993
- Occupation
- Unknown
- Event description
Per ECHR case file and police report dated 22nd November 1993, police officers went to Mehmet Şah İkincisoy’s residence in Diyarbakır, after the former was named as a suspect during a terror related investigation. Upon arrival, a man who was present with Mehmet Şah opened fire at the officers; during the shoot-out, one officer was killed and another was injured. Mehmet Şah’s family and his uncle’s family were taken into custody and many of them saw Mehmet Şah and heard his screams as he was being tortured. However, when they were released, the police officers claimed that Mehmet Şah had not been taken into custody because he had fled the scene during the shoot-out. Later, as the family searched for him, it was claimed that he had been killed in a shoot-out with the police shortly after the first incident.
In 2004, the ECHR ruled that Turkey had violated the articles 2, 5, 13 and the now defunct 25 of the Convention.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.9249733
Longitude: 40.2109826
- Geolocation
- City
- Diyarbakır
- Date of disappearance
- Nov 22, 1993
- Year of disappearance
- 1993
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:23Ay:10Gün:21
- Status of the victim
- Discovered dead and buried to the cemetery of the nameless by the Municipality
- 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
- Article 2: Substantive violation of the right to life
- Former Article 25: Individual applications
- Summary of the legal proceedings
Per ECHR case file, Mehmet Şah İkincisoy’s family and his uncle’s family were placed under custody after a police officer was killed and another injured in a shoot-out at the former’s residence while the police officers were looking for him. Even though multiple family members had seen and heard Mehmet Şah at the police station, he was not released with them; when his father applied to the State Security Prosecutor’s Office, his father was told that Mehmet Şah had fled the scene during the shoot-out and was later killed by the police in another shoot-out. His father pointed to certain inconstancies between the autopsy report and the police’s version of the events but he was not allowed to have his son’s body autopsied for a second time. As Mehmet Şah’s father’s many efforts proved to be fruitless, he applied to the ECHR in 1994, which ruled in 2004 that Turkey had violated the articles 2 (right to life), 5 (right to liberty and security) , 13 (right to effective remedy) and the now defunct article 25 of the Convention.