Edip Aksoy
person- Image
- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Married
- Occupation
- Peasant
- Dependants
- 2
- Event description
Per ruling delivered by the ECHR on 26th March 2013; born in 1972 in the Dolunay (Zenge) village of Diyarbakır’s Lice district, Orhan Cingöz made a living selling tobacco with Edip Aksoy, who had moved to central Diyarbakır after being repeatedly tortured under detention by the military authorities when he was living in the Dolunay village. On 7th June 1995, the two men were taken by two armed plainclothes men from a teahouse in Dağkapı under the guise of going to the police station, which was refuted by the police station and the prosecutor’s office, when their concerned families applied to authorities shortly later.
In 2004, the ex-PKK member-turned-JİTEM agent Abdülkadir Aygan alleged that the two men were among the twenty-nine victims that were executed by JİTEM.
On 3rd January 2009, the investigation into their disappearance was dismissed due to statute of limitations with no possibility of further appeal.
In March 2013, the ECHR found the case inadmissible due to the six-month time limit for applications.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.9249733
Longitude: 40.2109826
- Geolocation
- City
- Diyarbakır
- Date of disappearance
- Jun 7, 1995
- Year of disappearance
- 1995
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:31
- Status of the victim
- Still missing
- Type of source material
- Book or newspaper article
- 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
- Non-compliance with the six-month time limit
- Summary of the legal proceedings
Per ruling delivered by the ECHR, after the abduction of Orhan Cingöz and Edip Aksoy in Diyarbakır on 7th June 1995 by two armed plainclothes men under the guise of going to the police station, Cingöz’s mother and Aksoy’s applications to the Diyarbakır State Security Court were turned down until 2004 when the ex-PKK member-turned-JİTEM agent Abdülkadir Aygan claimed that the two men were among the twenty-nine victims executed by JİTEM and buried in unmarked graves. In 2005, an alleged burial site for the men mentioned in a news article was excavated; however, DNA test was negative for Aksoy and Cingöz.
On 3rd January 2009, the investigation into the disappearance of Orhan Cingöz and Edip Aksoy was dismissed due to statute of limitations with no possibility of further appeal.
In March 2013, the ECHR found the case inadmissible due to the six-month time limit for applications.