Ebubekir Deniz
person- Image
- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Married
- Occupation
- Politician
- Event description
Per ruling delivered by the European Human Rights Court on 2nd August 2005, the founder of the Silopi bureau of the HADEP (People’s Democracy Party), Ebubekir Deniz disappeared, along with Serdar Tanış, after they went to the district gendarmerie command on 25th January 2001 per request of the gendarmerie commander. Ebubekir Deniz had been placed in custody multiple times and had previously been threatened by the military authorities for opening HADEP’s Silopi branch, the last being two weeks before his disappearance.
The Silopi Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation, which was later dismissed in 2004.
Shortly later, the family applied to the ECHR, which ruled in 2005 that articles 2 (right to life), 3 (prohibition of torture), 5 (right to liberty and security) and 13 (effective remedy) of the Convention had been violated.
In 2014, bones were exhumed at a site, where a witness claimed that the bodies of the two men had been buried. The test results are pending.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.3055432
Longitude: 42.4983217
- Geolocation
- City
- Şırnak
- District
- Silopi
- Date of disappearance
- Jan 25, 2001
- Year of disappearance
- 2001
- Age at the time of disappearance
- HAH/act/422
- Status of the victim
- Still missing
- Type of source material
- Interview with family member (audiotape)
- Press release or report of human rights organisations
- Printed or online news
- Decision by the prosecution office
- Decision of non-prosecution due to lack of evidence
- Verdict of ECHR
- Violation of the right(s)
- Articles violated according to ECHR verdict
- Article 13: Right to an effective remedy
- Article 2: Failure to protect life
- Article 2: Procedural violation of the right to life
- Article 3: Prohibition of torture in respect of the applicant
- Article 38: Examination of the case
- Article 5: Right to liberty and security
- Summary of the legal proceedings
Per ruling delivered by the European Human Rights Court on 2nd August 2005, the founder of the Silopi bureau of the HADEP (People’s Democracy Party), Ebubekir Deniz disappeared, along with Serdar Tanış, after they went to the district gendarmerie command on 25th January 2001 per request of the gendarmerie commander.
The gendarmerie authorities denied that the two men had been to the gendarmerie command. However, the Governorship later stated that the two men had left the gendarmerie command safe and sound and had gone missing afterwards.
The families filed criminal complaints with the Silopi Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, naming as chief suspect the regiment commander, who had previously threatened Ebubekir Deniz for opening the Silopi branch of HADEP. The investigation was dismissed in 2004 without any significant development or result.
The family applied to the ECHR, which ruled in 2005 that articles 2 (right to life), 3 (prohibition of torture), 5 (right to liberty and security) and 13 (effective remedy) of the Convention had been violated.
In 2014, bones were exhumed at a site, where a witness claimed that the bodies of the two men had been buried. The test results are pending.
- Verdict of the Constitutional Court
- Inadmissible based on procedural grounds - Non-compliance with the one month rule