Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)171
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Bozkaya against Türkiye
 
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 3 July 2025
at the 1533rd meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
 
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
46661/09
BOZKAYA
05/09/2017
05/12/2017
 
The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”),
 
Having regard to the final judgment transmitted by the Court to the Committee in this case and to the violations established on account of the applicant’s conviction based on his statements taken by the police in the absence of a lawyer, and excessive length of the criminal proceedings;
 
Recalling the respondent State’s obligation, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by all final judgments in cases to which it has been a party and that this obligation entails, over and above the payment of any sums awarded by the Court, the adoption by the authorities of the respondent State, where required:
 
-          of individual measures to put an end to violations established and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and
-          of general measures preventing similar violations;
 
Having invited the government of the respondent State to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the above-mentioned obligation;
 
Having examined the action report provided by the government indicating the individual measures adopted to execute the judgment including the information provided regarding the reopening of proceedings and the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document
DH-DD(2025)546);
 
Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the applicant’s request for the reopening of the proceedings was accepted and the trial court delivered its decision on the basis of evidence other than the applicant’s statements taken in the absence of a lawyer, in accordance with the findings of the Court;
 
Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in this judgment continues to be examined within the framework of the Türk v. Turkey (22744/07) group of cases also in the light of the Court’s findings in this case, and that the closure of this case therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures in relation to the right to access to a lawyer in police custody;
 
Recalling further that the Committee closed the examination of similar cases concerning a violation of the right to trial within a reasonable time (see Final Resolution CM/ResDH(2014)298 concerning the Ormancı and Others group of cases);
 
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in this case;
 
CONCLUDES that the necessary individual measures have been adopted;
 
DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures concerning the right to access to a lawyer in police custody in the Türk v. Turkey group of cases (22744/07);
 
DECIDES to close the examination of this case.