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His legs amputated 15 years before since he stepped on mine, Ercan Bozkurt took the case to the European Court of Human Rights. Bozkurt has right to compensation now.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay damages for failing to fair trial in the case where 3 children were affected by a mine explosion in Diyarbakır province in 1999.

According to a land mine report, at least 24 people died and 45 were injured to land mine related incidents across Turkey in 2012.

A Tunceli province prosecutor rejected a lawsuit demanding the removal of approximately 11,000 land mines on the outskirts of Sarıtaş village.