Mahmut Mordeniz
person- Image
- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Married
- Date body found
- Nov 7, 1998
- Occupation
- Unknown
- Event description
Per ruling delivered by the European Court of Human Rights on 10th April 2006, after Mahmut and Fahriye Mordeniz’s son joined the PKK, the security forces began to harass and threaten the family. Later, two other sons of the couple also became PKK members and the harassment intensified; the security forces were pressuring the Mordeniz couple and their remaining son to work as informants. On 28th November 1996, the couple were placed under custody in Diyarbakır by armed men carrying police I.D.s and walkie-talkies; their dead bodies were discovered on 3rd December 1996 in Şırnak and they were buried in an unknown grave.
The legal process in Turkey dragged on without any substantial result. The couple’s son tried in vain to locate their grave and have it transferred to Diyarbakır.
In 2006, the ECHR ruled that Turkey had violated the articles 2 (right to life) and 13 (effective investigation) of the Convention.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.9249733
Longitude: 40.2109826
- Geolocation
- City
- Diyarbakır
- Date of disappearance
- Nov 28, 1996
- Year of disappearance
- 1996
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:56
- Status of the victim
- Discovered dead and buried to the cemetery of the nameless by the Municipality
- Type of source material
- Press release or report of human rights organisations
- 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 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 Court of Human Rights on 10th April 2006, Fahriye and Mahmut Mordeniz, whose sons had become PKK members, were being harassed and threatened by the security forces. On 28th November 1996, the couple were placed under custody in Diyarbakır by armed men carrying police I.D.s and walkie-talkies; their dead bodies were discovered on 3rd December 1996 in Şırnak and they were buried in an unknown grave.
During the investigation process, which was initiated by the İdil Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the file was transferred between various prosecutor’s offices, the last one being the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. In the course of the investigation, the similarities between Mordenizs’ abduction as well as the murder weapon and other incidents in the region attracted the prosecutors attention and it was merged with other similar cases. The investigation is still on-going.
In 2006, the ECHR ruled that Turkey had violated the articles 2 (right to life) and 13 (effective investigation) of the Convention.