CASE OF ÖZLÜ AGAINST TÜRKİYE AND 1 OTHER CASE

Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)461 Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights Two cases against Türkiye   (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 10 December 2025 at the 1546th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)   Application No. Case Judgment of Final on 45204/20 ÖZLÜ 08/10/2024 08/10/2024 8732/11 SELAHATTİN DEMİRTAŞ (No. 3) 09/07/2019 09/10/2019   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 judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases and to the violations established on account of unjustified convictions of the applicants for having expressed peaceful opinions;   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 reports provided by the government indicating the individual measures adopted to execute the judgments including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see documents DH-DD(2025)1179 and DH-DD(2025)1347);   Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the applicants have been acquitted in the reopened domestic proceedings in these cases;   Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in this these judgments continues to be examined within the framework of the Öner and Türk (51962/12) and Altuğ Taner Akçam (27520/07) groups of cases, also in the light of the Court’s findings in these cases, and that the closure of these cases therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures in relation to unjustified convictions for expression of peaceful opinions;   DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases;   CONCLUDES that the necessary individual measures have been adopted;   DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures concerning unjustified convictions for expression of peaceful opinions in the Öner and Türk v. Turkey and Altuğ Taner Akçam v. Turkey groups of cases;   DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.