Turkey fined 52,000 euros for man’s injuries in 2007 operation in Tunceli
STRASBOURG – Hürriyet Daily News
The ECHR fined Turkey 52,000 euros for non-pecuniary damage and 285 euros for pecuniary damage. In the case, Taydaş reported excessive force used by the Turkish security forces.
Taydaş claimed he had been shot by a gendarmerie special operations team on Sept. 7, 2007 when leaving a neighbor’s house in the eastern province Tunceli, and as a result, he was left permanently disabled.
Turkey said the gendarmerie had surrounded the house following a report that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants would be there and the gendarmerie, believing Taydaş to have a weapon, had fired warning shots and then opened fire when he attempted to escape.
Taydaş, however, claimed that there were no warning shots, that he had not been carrying a weapon but a light and that he had not attempted to escape.
The court decided that there was a violation of Article 2 of the Convention (right to life) in both its substantive and procedural aspects.