Üzeyir Kurt
person- Image
- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Unknown
- Event description
Per ECHR case file, Üzeyir Kurt was placed under custody during a military raid to his native Ağıllı village in Bismil, Diyarbakır between 23rd and 25th November 1993. When his mother applied to authorities to locate her son she was told that he had never been placed under custody and had likely been abducted by the PKK. Shortly later, Uzeyir Kurt’s cousins and uncle were interrogated by the gendarmerie regarding his alleged abduction by the PKK and released. In 1994 Uzeyir Kurt’s mother applied to the ECHR, which ruled in 1998 that Turkey had violated articles 3 (prohibition of torture) regarding his mother and articles 5 (right to liberty and security) as well as article 13 (right to effective remedy) and the now defunct article 25 regarding Uzeyir Kurt.
In 1992, Uzeyir Kurt had been detained and tortured by the Bismil Commando Command along with his brother Abdullah and others. His brother Abdullah, who had been raped with a baton, had died during torture and one soldier was sentenced to prison in 2010, while thirteen others were acquitted due to lack of evidence.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.850055
Longitude: 40.668688
- Geolocation
- City
- Diyarbakır
- District
- Bismil
- Date of disappearance
- Nov 25, 1993
- Year of disappearance
- 1993
- Age at the time of disappearance
- HAH/act/414
- Status of the victim
- Still missing
- 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 13: Right to an effective remedy
- Article 3: Prohibition of torture in respect of the applicant
- Article 5: Right to liberty and security
- Former Article 25: Individual applications
- Summary of the legal proceedings
Per ECHR case files, when Uzeyir Kurt’ mother searched for her son, who had been taken into custody during a military raid in their village, she was told that there was no record of his detention and he had most likely been abducted by the PKK. Shortly later, Uzeyir Kurt’s cousins and uncle were interrogated by the gendarmerie regarding his alleged abduction by the PKK and released. In 1994 Uzeyir Kurt’s mother applied to the ECHR, which ruled in 1998 that Turkey had violated articles 3 (prohibition of torture) regarding his mother and articles 5 (right to liberty and security) as well as article 13 (right to effective remedy) and the now defunct article 25 regarding Uzeyir Kurt.
In 2014, the Bismil Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the case (file no. 2014/754). As the family’s appeal was also rejected by the higher court, they applied to the Constitutional Court.