content tagged with non-pecuniary damages

Ahmet Sönmez was killed in Mardin’s Nusaybin in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeastern Anatolia region in 2015. The appeals court has found the Interior Ministry negligent and ruled that the Ministry shall pay damages.

President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against main opposition CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu over his allegations that Erdoğan has money abroad. He demands 2 million lira in non-pecuniary damages.

With the verdict of the local court upheld by the Court of Cassation, Star TV channel will pay damages to a teacher for using a video footage featuring his detention during a union activity as an archive footage in another news entitled “suicide bomber caught.”

The ECtHR has ruled that Turkey shall pay 300 thousand Euro in non-pecuniary damages to Timurlenk, who was previously paid damages for her amputated leg, but had to pay back some of this money to the Ministry of Defense.

The Constitutional Court has given its justified ruling on Uçar family who were injured in a bomb attack in Aydın. The Court has ruled that the case shall be heard again as the family has a right to receive non-pecuniary damages.

Reversing the verdict of the court which only ruled for pecuniary damages in the lawsuit filed into the death of 12-year-old Ceylan Önkol, the Council of State has concluded that there is “a neglect of duty” and ruled for non-pecuniary damages as well.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay a total of 50,000 euros to 5 politicians who were convicted by Turkish courts for speaking Kurdish during various election campaigns between 2002 and 2007.

A court in Izmir province ruled Turkey's election council to pay for non-pecuniary damages to Süleyman Eryiğit, a physically disabled elector who was unable to vote due to accessibility issues in the ballot drop location.