CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 14 juin 1999

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .sA1D3DA2E { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify } .s94935B0F { width:389.85pt; display:inline-block } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s23A41E03 { width:36pt; display:inline-block } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s76CF415B { page-break-before:always; clear:both } .sCB27B9E { width:16.66pt; display:inline-block } .s147A4AAD { width:18pt; display:inline-block } .s8AFB426F { width:32.67pt; display:inline-block } .s68BA453A { width:7.99pt; display:inline-block } .s37CDBE05 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .sACBC61AB { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; text-align:justify } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS     319   14.6.1999       Press release issued by the Registrar   ADMISSIBILITY DECISION IN THE CASE OF DENMARK v. TURKEY         On 8 June 1999 the European Court of Human Rights (First Section), by a majority, declared admissible the application lodged in the case of Denmark v. Turkey (application   no.   34382/97).   The application     The application concerns the allegation of ill-treatment by the Turkish authorities of   Kemal Koç between 8 July to 16 August 1996 when he was detained in Turkey and in particular the treatment that Mr Koç is alleged to have suffered on 8 and 9 July 1996. Mr Koç is a Danish citizen and was born in 1957. The applicant Government further requests the Court to determine whether the interrogation techniques which are claimed to have been applied to Mr Koç are employed as a widespread practice in Turkey. The complaints are brought under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.     Procedure     The application was lodged with the European Commission of Human Rights on 7   January 1997. By virtue of Article 5 § 2 of Protocol No. 11 to the Convention it was transmitted to the European Court of Human Rights on the entry into force of that Protocol.     The Chamber hearing the case is composed as follows:   Elisabeth Palm   (Swedish), President , Josep Casadevall   (Andorran), Gaukur Jörundsson   (Icelandic), Corneliu Bîrsan   (Romanian), Peer Lorenzen   (Danish), Rait Maruste   (Estonian), Judges , Feyyaz Gölcüklü ,   (Turkish), ad hoc Judge , Wilhelmina Thomassen   (Dutch), Luigi Ferrari Bravo ,   (Italian), Boštjan Zupančič   (Slovenian), Tudor Pantiru   (Moldovan), Substitute Judges ,   Michael O’Boyle , Section Registrar . Decision on admissibility     Following the hearing held on 27 April 1999 and its subsequent deliberations, the Chamber found that the applicant Government’s complaints under Article 3 of the Convention could not be declared inadmissible under Article 35 §§ 1 and 4 of the Convention. It joined to the merits, inter alia , the issue of the exhaustion of domestic remedies in respect of Mr Koç and, without prejudging the merits of the case, declared the application admissible.         Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: (0)3 88 41 24 92) Or:     Emma Hellyer (telephone: (0)3 90 21 42 15) Fax:     (0)3 88 41 27 91       The European Court of Human Rights was set up in 1959 in Strasbourg to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.   On November 1 1998 a permanent Court was established, replacing the original two-tier system of a part-time Court and Commission.