Turkey had breached three articles of the Geneva
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that Turkey had breached three articles of the Geneva Human Rights Convention in handing down its verdict in a case opened by 18 Greek Cypriots. The court ruled that Turkey had to play compensation to the tune of 4000 Euros to each of the plaintiffs in the case, which dated back to the 1974 military operations of the Turkish armed forces on the island, when Turkish troops were sent to Cyprus by the government in Ankara to protect Turkish Cypriot civilians from attacks. Of the 18 Greek Cypriots whose names appeared on the documnets lodged against Turkey, nine are reported to have gone missing during the 1974 military operations, with the remaining nine being their relatives.
In a statement issued after it handed down its verdict, the court said that six of the seven judged had found there had been a continuing violation of Article 2 of the Convention on account of failure of the Turkish authorities to conduct an effective investigation into the whereabouts and fate of the nine first applicants who disappeared in life-threatening cir*****stances.
It also said that by six votes to one it found that there has been a continuing violation of Article 3 of the Convention in respect of the second applicants, the relatives of the nine missing men; and that by a similar vote it judged there has been a continuing violation of Article 5 of the Convention by virtue of the failure of the authorities of the respondent State to conduct an effective investigation into the whereabouts and fate of the nine first applicants in respect of whom there is an arguable claim that they had been deprived of their liberty at the time of their disappearance.
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