İhsan Haran
person- Image
- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Living with common-law spouse
- Occupation
- Workers
- Dependants
- 4
- Event description
Per the decision of the European Court of Human Rights on İhsan Haran’s case, he was a married 25-year-old secondary school graduate and had three children. He lived in the Huseynîk (Arıklı) village of Diyarbakır’s Lice county. He worked in his fields and raised livestock. When their village was burnt and forcefully vacated, the whole family moved to Diyarbakır city.
İhsan Haran and his wife Nesibe, were under constant pressure from the State since both had some relatives in the militant organization. İhsan, in fact had been detained and tortured earlier.
On Dec. 24, 1994, İhsan Haran did not come home from work. Three days later, a former co-villager who came to visit his house, told the family that İhsan Haran had been detained by the police.
Nesibe Haran went to the Human Rights’ Association (İHD) for help and later to the Prosecutor of the State Security Court in Diyarbakir to learn about her husband’s whereabouts. As she continued to search for her husband in prisons, she heard from a Diyarbakır prison inmate that her husband İhsan’s body was in the morgue of a hospital in Batman. When she reached that hospital, she was told that such a person’s body had never been brought there.
Eventually she applied to the European Court of Human Rights on 22nd June 1995, which in turn requested information from the Public Prosecutor in Diyarbakır about the whereabouts of İhsan Haran, prompting an investigation into his disappearance. On 21st January 1998, the Prosecutor’s office decided that there were not sufficient grounds to declare that İhsan Haran was a victim of enforced disappearance and dismissed the case.
Later, on 3rd December 2003 the Fatih Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office transferred the case to the Lice Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office due to lack of jurisdiction. In an interview published on 4th May 2004, Abdülkadir Aygan, a former JİTEM member, said that İhsan Haran had been interrogated and killed by JİTEM.
On 6th October 2005, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Turkish authorities had violated Article 2 of the Convention by failing to carry out an adequate and effective investigation into İhsan Haran’s disappearance and fined Turkey for non-pecuniary damages.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.9249733
Longitude: 40.2109826
- Geolocation
- City
- Diyarbakır
- Date of disappearance
- Dec 24, 1994
- Year of disappearance
- 1994
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:25
- Status of the victim
- Still missing
- Type of source material
- ECHR decision
- Interview with family member (audio and video records)
- Press release or report of human rights organisations
- Printed or online news
- Statement by victim/complainant
- Decision by the prosecution office
- Unknown
- Verdict of ECHR
- Violation of the right(s)
- Articles violated according to ECHR verdict
- Article 2: Procedural violation of the right to life
- Summary of the legal proceedings
After her husband’s disappearance, İhsan Haran’s wife went to the Human Rights’ Association (İHD) for help and later to the Prosecutor of the State Security Court in Diyarbakir to learn about her husband’s whereabouts, but she could not find any results. Eventually she applied to the European Court of Human Rights on 22nd June 1995, which in turn requested information from the Public Prosecutor in Diyarbakır about the whereabouts of İhsan Haran, prompting an investigation into his disappearance. On 21st January 1998, the Prosecutor’s office decided that there were not sufficient grounds to declare that İhsan Haran was a victim of enforced disappearance and dismissed the case.
Later, on 3rd December 2003 the Fatih Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office transferred the case to the Lice Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office due to lack of jurisdiction. In an interview published on 4th May 2004, Abdülkadir Aygan, a former JİTEM member, said that İhsan Haran had been interrogated and killed by JİTEM.
On 6th October 2005, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Turkish authorities had violated Article 2 of the Convention by failing to carry out an adequate and effective investigation into İhsan Haran’s disappearance and fined Turkey for non-pecuniary damages.