Mehmet Selim Örhan
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- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Married
- Date body found
- Jan 1, 2007
- Occupation
- Imam
- Event description
Per ruling delivered by the European Court of Human Rights on 6th November 2002, on 24th May 1994, shortly after the Çağlayan village of Diyarbakır’s Kulp district was evacuated and burnt down, the Mehmet Emin and Hasan Örhan brothers and the latter’s son Cezayir were taken by the Bolu 2nd Brigade in order to serve as guides from the hamlet where they continued to reside with the gendarmerie’s permission. Their family searched for them, to no avail.
In 2002, the ECHR ruled that articles 2 (right to life), 3 (prohibition of torture-with regards to the applicants), 5 (right to liberty and security), 8 (respect for private life and family) and 13 (right to effective remedy) were violated.
In 2007, DNA test performed on bones taken from a mass grave matched Mehmet Emin and Hasan Örhan’s DNA.
As of 2015, the family await permission to exhume the bodies for proper burial and the family attorney applied to the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for a trial.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 38.5258521
Longitude: 41.1422334
- Geolocation
- City
- Diyarbakır
- District
- Kulp
- Date of disappearance
- May 24, 1994
- Year of disappearance
- 1994
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:40
- Status of the victim
- Discovered dead but not returned to the family
- Type of source material
- Interview with family member (audio and video records)
- Decision by the prosecution office
- Investigation continues
- Verdict of ECHR
- Violation of the right(s)
- Articles violated according to ECHR verdict
- Article 13: Right to an effective remedy
- Article 2: Substantive violation of the right to life
- Article 3: Prohibition of torture in respect of the applicant
- Article 5: Right to liberty and security
- Summary of the legal proceedings
Per ruling delivered by the European Court of Human Rights on 6th November 2002, on 24th May 1994, shortly after the Çağlayan village of Diyarbakır’s Kulp district was evacuated and burnt down, the Mehmet Emin and Hasan Örhan brothers and the latter’s son Cezayir were taken by the Bolu 2nd Brigade in order to serve as guides from the hamlet where they continued to reside with the gendarmerie’s permission.
An investigation was initiated by the Kulp Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on 8th June 1994, which ended in 1995 with a decision of “non-prosecution”
In 2002, the ECHR ruled that articles 2 (right to life), 3 (prohibition of torture-with regards to the applicants), 5 (right to liberty and security), 8 (respect for private life and family) and 13 (right to effective remedy) were violated.
In 2006, Mehmet Emin’s son re-initiated the family efforts to locate the missing men.
In 2007, DNA test performed on bones taken from a mass grave matched Mehmet Emin and Hasan Örhan’s DNA.
As of 2015, the family await permission to exhume the bodies for proper burial and the family attorney applied to the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for a trial.