CEDH · PRESS;HEARINGS;ENG — 13 janvier 2004

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s5FFF0A77 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:1pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s94935B0F { width:389.85pt; display:inline-block } .s76CF415B { page-break-before:always; clear:both } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .s61E420C2 { font-family:Arial; font-variant:small-caps } .s69BE285C { margin-top:0pt; margin-left:85.05pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-85.05pt } .s9A223E1B { width:11.03pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block } .s3CED24E9 { width:27.05pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block } .s9F8EB0C0 { width:18.63pt; display:inline-block } .s9E97F54A { width:85.05pt; display:inline-block } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic }   EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS     011   13.1.2004   Press release issued by the Registrar   CHAMBER HEARING ON THE MERITS IN THE CASE OF ÜNAL TEKELI v. TURKEY   Tuesday 13 January 2004 at 9.30 a.m.   The applicant   The case concerns an application (no. 29865/96) brought by a Turkish national, Ayten Ünal Tekeli, who was born in 1965 and lives in İzmir (Turkey).   Summary of the facts   After she married in 1990, the applicant, who was a trainee lawyer at the relevant time, took her husband’s name and continued to use her maiden name before it.   In 1995 she applied to Karsiyaka Court of First Instance for permission to use only her maiden name, Ünal. She stated that in her professional life she was known only by her maiden name. On 4 April 1995 the Court of First Instance dismissed her application. She appealed to the Court of Cassation, which dismissed her appeal on 6 June 1995.   Complaints   The applicant complains under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to respect for private life) that the domestic courts’ refusal to allow her to use only her maiden name amounted to unjustifiable interference with her right to protection of her private life. She also complains that she was discriminated against in that only married men can continue to use their own family name after they marry. In that connection she relies on Article 14 of the Convention, taken together with Article 8.   Procedure   The application was lodged with the European Commission of Human Rights on 20   December 1995 and transmitted to the Court on 1 November 1998. It was declared admissible on 1 July 2003.   Composition of the Court   The case will be heard by a Chamber composed as follows:   Nicolas Bratza (British), President , Matti Pellonpää (Finnish), Riza Türmen (Turkish), Viera Strážnická (Slovakian), Josep Casadevall (Andorran), Stanislav Pavlovschi (Moldovan), Javier Borrego Borrego (Spanish), judges , Marc Fischbach (Luxemburger) , Rait Maruste (Estonian) , Lech Garlicki (Polish) , Elisabet Fura-Sandström (Swedish) , substitute judges , and also Michael O’Boyle , Section Registrar .   Representatives of the parties   Government :   Deniz Akçay , co-Agent , Burçe Arı , Işık Batmaz Keremoğlu and Banur Özaydın , Advisers ;   Applicant :   Aydan Demirel Ersezen , Counsel ; Hayati Torun , Interpreter .   Ayten Ünal Tekeli will also attend the hearing.   ***   After the hearing the Court will begin its deliberations, which are held in private. Judgment will be delivered at a later date.   Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Press contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 24 92)   Emma Hellyer (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15)   Stéphanie Klein (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 21 54) Fax: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 27 91   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. Since 1 November 1998 it has sat as a full-time Court composed of an equal number of judges to that of the States party to the Convention. The Court examines the admissibility and merits of applications submitted to it. It sits in Chambers of 7 judges or, in exceptional cases, as a Grand Chamber of 17 judges. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe supervises the execution of the Court’s judgments. More detailed information about the Court and its activities can be found on its Internet site.