CEDH · CASELAW;RESOLUTIONS;EXECUTION;ENG — 6 janvier 2004

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border-left-style:double; border-left-width:1.5pt; padding-right:4.65pt; padding-left:4.65pt } Resolution ResDH(2003)188 concerning the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights of 27 June 2002 (Friendly settlements) in 5 cases against Turkey (see Appendix) concerning the administration’s delay in payment of additional compensation for expropriation and the applicable rate of default interest   (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 6 January 2004 at the 863rd meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)     The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as amended by Protocol No. 11 (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”),   Having regard to the final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the five cases details of which appear in the Appendix to this resolution, which were delivered on 27 June 2002 and transmitted the same day to the Committee of Ministers under Article 46 of the Convention;   Recalling that these cases originated in applications against Turkey (see Appendix), lodged with the European Commission of Human Rights between 12 December 1996 and 4 November 1997 under former Article 25 of the Convention by 32 Turkish nationals, and that the Court, seised of the case under Article 5, paragraph 2, of Protocol No. 11, declared admissible the complaints that there had been a breach of the applicants’ right to the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions due to the administration’s delay in paying additional compensation awarded by the domestic courts for the expropriation of the applicants’ properties and due to the loss of value this caused as a result of the substantial difference between the default interest rate applicable at the time and the average rate of inflation in Turkey;   Whereas in its judgments of 27 June 2002 the Court, after having taken formal note of a friendly settlement reached by the government of the respondent state and the applicants, and having been satisfied that the settlements were based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention or its Protocols, decided unanimously to strike the cases out of its list and took note of the parties’ undertaking not to request a re-hearing of the cases before the Grand Chamber;   Whereas under the above-mentioned friendly settlements it was agreed that the Government of Turkey would pay the applicants certain sums (see Appendix) within three to six months as from the notification of the judgment;   Recalling that Rule 44, paragraph 2, of the Rules of the Court provides that the striking-out of a case shall be effected by means of a judgment which the President shall forward to the Committee of Ministers once it has become final in order to allow it to supervise, in accordance with Article 46, paragraph 2 of the Convention, the execution of any undertakings which may have been attached to the discontinuance or solution of the matter;   Having regard to the Rules adopted by the Committee of Ministers concerning the application of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention; Whereas, in this connection, the government of the respondent state has already taken measures to avoid new, similar violations (see Resolutions ResDH(2001)70 and ResDH(2001)71 in the cases Aka and Akkuş against Turkey respectively), notably through the entry into force on 1 January 2000 of Law No. 4489, which brought the statutory rate of default interest into line with the annual rediscount rate applied by the Turkish Central Bank to short-term debts (the latter rate is fixed and permanently reviewed, taking into account particularly the country’s inflation rate);   Having satisfied itself that, on the dates indicated in the Appendix, after the expiry of the time-limit agreed to under the terms of the friendly settlements, the government of the respondent state had paid the applicants the sums provided for in the friendly settlements, including the default interest due, and that no other measure was required in the present cases to conform to the Court’s judgments,   Declares, after having examined the information supplied by the Government of Turkey, that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases.     Appendix to Resolution ResDH(2003)188   Details of the just satisfaction awarded to the applicants:     Case Application No. Total sum Time limit for payment Date of payment Karabıyık and others   Mr Osman Nuri Karabıyık Mr Eser Gülmüş Mrs Fatma Apaydın Mrs Nebahat Kör Mrs Selma Ikbal Kör 35050/97 153 750 American dollars 27/09/2002 19/11/2002 153 750 American dollars 27/12/2002 17/12/2002 Özkan and others   Mr Nejat Özkan Mr Cavit Aktolun Mr Turgut Çelebioğlu Mr Hıdır Haluk Gökmen Mr Mehmet Tuncay Mrs Hatice Menekşelioğlu Mr Süleyman Denli Mr Ahmet Denli Mrs Nesibe Denli Mr Vahit Yorulmaz Mr Raif Yorulmaz Mr Fuat Dereli Mr Ali Dereli Mr Ahmet Dereli 35079/97 212 500 American dollars 27/09/2002 08/11/2002 212 500 American dollars 27/12/2002 20/12/2002 Bayram and others   Mrs Emine Bayram Mr Mustafa Bayram Mr Şükrü Bayram 35867/97 70 000 American dollars 27/09/2002 11/10/2002 Birsel and others   Mr Mehmet Melih Birsel Mr Mehmet Refik Birsel Mr Üstün Sanver Mr Selahattin Sanver Mrs Ayla Birsel Mrs Fatma Leyla Birsel Mrs Gül Ayşe Işçimenler Mrs Inci Zeynep Oral Mrs Fatma Nilgün Özsaruhan 37414/97 550 000 American dollars 27/09/2002 28/09/2002 550 000 American dollars 27/12/2002 08/11/2002 Bayram 38915/97 37 500 American dollars 27/09/2002 08/10/2002