Bahri Budak
person- Image
- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Married
- Date body found
- Mar 13, 2006
- Occupation
- Peasant
- Event description
Per ruling delivered by the European Human Rights Court on 9th December 2014, sixty-year-old Bahri Budak and his fourteen-year-old grandson Metin disappeared on 28th May 1994 after going to their native Yalımlı village, which had been evacuated by the military, to tend to their field.
In their search for the grandfather and the grandson, the family applied to various authorities, to no avail.
In 2005, as he was walking around the village, a member of the Budak family found human bones, which were later proven to belong to the grandfather and the grandson.
In 2014, the ECHR ruled that, during the investigation launched following the discovery of the bones, article 2 (right to life) had been violated by failing to conduct an effective investigation.
In 2013, the indictment bill charging the commander of the 2nd Bolu Brigade with various extrajudicial killings in the region referenced the disappearance and murder of the grandfather and the grandson but the incident was not prosecuted.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 38.4249512
Longitude: 40.6704089
- Geolocation
- City
- Diyarbakır
- District
- Lice
- Date of disappearance
- May 30, 1994
- Year of disappearance
- 1994
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:61Ay:4Gün:29
- Status of the victim
- Discovered dead and returned to the family
- Type of source material
- ECHR decision
- Press release or report of human rights organisations
- Printed or online news
- Decision by the prosecution office
- Decision of non-prosecution due to statute of limitations
- Verdict of ECHR
- Violation of the right(s)
- Articles violated according to ECHR verdict
- Article 2: Procedural violation of the right to life
- Summary of the legal proceedings
Per ruling delivered by the European Human Rights Court on 9th December 2014, despite the family’s persistent efforts there was not an investigation following the disappearance of sixty-year-old Bahri Budak and his fourteen-year-old grandson Metin disappeared in 1994 after going to their native Yalımlı village, which had been evacuated by the military, to tend to their field.
A criminal investigation was launched after the remains of the grandfather and the grandson were discovered in the village in 2005. However, the investigation lagged on and the family applied to the ECHR in 2008.
In 2014, the ECHR ruled that, during the investigation launched following the discovery of the bones, article 2 (right to life) had been violated by failing to conduct an effective investigation.
In 2013, the indictment bill charging the commander of the 2nd Bolu Brigade with various extrajudicial killings in the region referenced the disappearance and murder of the grandfather and the grandson but the incident was not prosecuted.