CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 26 mai 2025

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s379BC09C { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s339D85E6 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s665E407E { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s10950C61 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:justify } .s65E06E64 { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s5FFF0A75 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:7pt } .s75A32C27 { border-collapse:collapse } .s279A64EC { height:70.8pt } .s3695F815 { border:0.75pt solid #949494; padding:1.02pt 5.03pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#dfdfdf } .s2EF62ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt } .sEECE831 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; color:#474747 } .sA4064EC { height:71.7pt } .sE8934522 { border:0.75pt solid #949494; padding:1.02pt 5.03pt; vertical-align:top } Published on 10 June 2025   SECOND SECTION Application no. 19092/20 Abdurrahman KAVUN against Türkiye and 2 other applications (see list appended) communicated on 26 May 2025 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE All the applications listed below (see appendix) concern the refusal of the prison authorities to send or deliver the applicants’ correspondence. In   applications nos. 19092/20 and 2907/25, the prison authorities refused to dispatch letters sent to the applicants by their close family members. In   application no. 7188/24, the authorities refused to send a letter written by the applicant to a journalist in which he requested the publication of a rectification after the appearance of an article in the daily newspaper Hürriyet that involved some allegedly false news about him. The prison authorities based their decisions on section 68 of Law no.   5275 on the enforcement of sentences and preventive measures as well as sections   105 and 123 of the Regulation on the management of prisons and the execution of sentences and preventive measures. These provisions allow the prison authorities to monitor, censor and withhold incoming and outgoing correspondence of prisoners if it is deemed objectionable or a threat to prison order and security, targets officials, enables intra-organisational communication, contains false or misleading information or includes threats or insults. Relying mainly on Article 8 of the Convention, the applicants complain of a breach of their right to respect for their correspondence by the prison authorities’ decisions.     QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES Has there been an interference with the applicants’ right to respect for their correspondence, within the meaning of Article 8 § 1 of the Convention, by the interception of the letters to be sent by them or to be delivered to them by the prison authorities? If so, was that interference in accordance with the law and necessary in terms of Article   8   §   2? In particular, did the national authorities carry out a sufficient examination and adequate balancing of the applicants’ right to respect for their correspondence and other interests at stake in the light of the criteria set out and applied by the Court in similar cases ( Halit Kara v.   Türkiye , no.   60846/19, §§ 51-59, 12 December 2023)?     APPENDIX No. Application no. Case name Lodged on Applicant Year of Birth Place of Residence Nationality ID No. Represented by 1. 19092/20 Kavun v. Türkiye 22/04/2020 Abdurrahman KAVUN 1966 Osmaniye Turkish 10875169580 Mehmet KARAKOÇ 2. 7188/24 Öcal v. Türkiye 15/02/2024 Hüseyin Hakan ÖCAL 1974 Ankara Turkish 48514447850   3. 2907/25 Cansız v. Türkiye 31/12/2024 Serkan CANSIZ 1973 Bursa Turkish 50890694742