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72:(ECHR). In 1996 the family members of the village guard family successfully had their case ruled in their favor, which "confirmed that Turkish security forces were indeed guilty of house destruction", a later judgment ruled and thus warded the villagers "pecuniary damages for destruction of the houses, livestock and crops, household property, loss of income, and cost of alternative accommodation, totaling £115,062.76 (U.S$ 188,702). Each applicant also received £8,000 (U.S.$ 13,120) in non-pecuniary damages for the emotional trauma they experienced during the destruction of their houses." It was the first case regarding village destruction in 49:, using heavy weapons in armored vehicles began firing at the villagers and their houses. Soldiers set fire to and destroyed 136 houses. Some of the villagers escaped to nearby towns, with unknown killed. On the 6 April 1993, the Turkish authorities returned and set fire to the remaining houses. Before its destruction, the village had a population of five-hundred inhabitants. 79:
Turkey decided that such rulings would be detrimental and costly considering a vast amount of cases existed. The Compensation Law was passed in July 2004 within Turkey that meant families instead of directly going to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), they would first have to go through
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In September 1996 the European Court of Human Rights condemned Turkey. Turkey rejected the European Court of Human Rights' condemnation of Turkey.
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Turkey's system. This meant that Turkey decided the settlements and in some cases offered $ 3,350 or less.
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on 22 February 2006, "urging that damage assessment should take a more consistent and fairer approach".
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village to evacuate all the inhabitants of the village. But as the villagers gathered in an area, the
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that was instituted by Turkey due to three members being killed during an attack by the
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In July the same year a village guard family had decided to resign from the
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Timeline of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)
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Index

Kurdish villages depopulated by Turkey
Dicle
Diyarbakır Province
Muhtar
Kelekçi
Turkish gendarmerie
village guard system
Kurdistan Workers' Party
European Court of Human Rights
Turkish Kurdistan
Human Rights Watch
Abdullah Gül
Kurdish villages depopulated by Turkey
Timeline of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)




"The Kurds"
"Unjust, Restrictive, and Inconsistent: The Impact of Turkey's Compensation Law with Respect to Internally Displaced People: Impact of the ECtHR on provisions for Turkey's displaced"
"Displaced and Disregarded"
"Unjust, Restrictive, and Inconsistent: The Impact of Turkey's Compensation Law with Respect to Internally Displaced People: Impact of the ECtHR on provisions for Turkey's displaced"
"Human rights court condemns Turkish repression of Kurds"
"Turkey rejects human rights ruling"
Categories
Kurdish settlements in Turkey
1992 crimes in Turkey
1993 crimes in Turkey
Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)
Attacks on buildings and structures in Turkey

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