CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 28 juillet 2008

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s7ED160F0 { text-decoration:none } .s3DC36BA9 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline; color:#0069d6 } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS   555 28.7.2008   Press release issued by the Registrar   INFORMATION CONCERNING AN APPLICATION LODGED AGAINST TURKEY     On 25 July 2008 the European Court of Human Rights received an application lodged by Mr Ali Sezer, represented by Mr Mustafa Kemal Turan, of the Izmir Bar. The application was accompanied by a request for the adoption of an interim measure to prevent the Turkish Constitutional Court from ordering the dissolution of the AKP ( Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – Justice and Development Party).   On the same date the Registry of the Court informed the applicant that it had decided not to adopt the interim measure requested under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court. It also informed him that it had rejected his requests for urgent notification of the application and had decided against giving it priority (Rules 40 and 41 of the Rules of Court).     ***   Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Press contacts Adrien Meyer (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 33 37) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Sania Ivedi (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 59 45)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.