content tagged with pecuniary damages

Appeals court finds Interior Ministry negligent in death of citizen during curfew

Appeals court finds Interior Ministry negligent in death of citizen during curfew

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.

13 December 2021

Turkey Convicted of Violating Property Rights

ECHR VERDICT

Turkey Convicted of Violating Property Rights

The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty in Ayangil case, where the authorities had built a primary school on land Ayangil family owned in the Incesu neighbourhood of Ankara without formally expropriating it and without awarding them compensation. Turkey was ordered to pay 180,000 euros for pecuniary damages.

25 September 2013