Kanbur v. Turkey (9984/03)

Date	20081014
Article	6(1)
Decision	violation

Violation of Article 6 § 1 (length)

Kanbur v. Turkey (no. 9984/03)

The applicant, Yaşar Kanbur, is a Turkish national who was born in 1960 and lives in Istanbul.

On 30 October 2001 the Court had found that there had been a violation of Article 6 § 1 following an application lodged by the applicant on 21 July 1995 concerning the length of criminal proceedings brought against him for his membership of Dev-Yol (Revolutionary Way). By then the proceedings had lasted for over 19 years.

He relied on Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial within a reasonable time).

Today the Court held unanimously that there had been a violation of Article 6 § 1 on account of the excessive length of the proceedings which have continued for more than six years and ten months, for two levels of jurisdiction, since the Court’s earlier judgment and have not ended. Mr Kanbur was awarded EUR 3,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage and EUR 1,000 for costs and expenses. (The judgment is available only in English.)