Yusuf Ekinci
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- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Married
- Date body found
- Feb 25, 1994
- Occupation
- Lawyer
- Dependants
- 4
- Event description
Per ECHR case file, Yusuf Ekinci was a fifty-two-year-old Diyarbakır-born lawyer living in Ankara, who was taken into custody by a team of special forces police officers on 24th February 1994 on his way home from work; his dead body was discovered the next day in Ankara.
In 1995, his family applied to the ECHR, which ruled in 2002 that Turkey had violated article 2 (right to life) and 13 (right to effective remedy) of the convention.
In 2011, a police special force officer made confessions about Yusuf Ekinci’s murder, who was included among the victims of an armed criminal gang responsible for enforced disappearances and arbitrary executions by the 1st Ankara High Criminal Court’s Prosecution Office. The case is still on-going.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 39.9333635
Longitude: 32.8597419
- Geolocation
- City
- Ankara
- Date of disappearance
- Feb 24, 1994
- Year of disappearance
- 1994
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:51Ay:7Gün:11
- Status of the victim
- Discovered dead and returned to the family
- Latest status as suspect in the act
- Faced charges but acquitted, decision taken to appeal
- Type of source material
- Bill of indictment
- ECHR decision
- Press release or report of human rights organisations
- Printed or online news
- Report by secret service
- Statement by victim/complainant
- Decision by the prosecution office
- Decision of acquittal due to lack of evidence, case taken to Supreme Court
- Name of the court case
- Ankara JITEM Case
- 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 ECHR case file, after the discovery of Yusuf Ekinci’s dead body in 1994, his family found out that he had been taken by police officers. They wrote letter to the President and the President of the National Assembly multiple times, to no avail. In 1995, they applied to the ECHR, which ruled in 2002 that Turkey had violated the articles 2 (right to life) and 13 (effective remedy) of the Convention.
In 2011, a police special force officer made confessions about Yusuf Ekinci’s murder, who was included among the victims of an armed criminal gang responsible for enforced disappearances and arbitrary executions by the 1st Ankara High Criminal Court’s Prosecution Office. The case is still on-going.