CoE asks Turkey 180.000€ for 9 Cyprus' MISSING, but Crimes' Impunity persists after 23 Years ECHR

*Strasbourg/- CoE's Committee of Ministers slammed Turkey for Failing during almost 4 Years now even to pay a minimal just satisfaction and costs' reimbursement awarded by the ECHR to the Families of 9 Persons gone "MISSING" in Cyprus since the 1974 Turkish Military Invasion and Occupation of the Northern Coasts of the Island, according to its Judgement in the "Varnavas" case, dated from September 2009, which has not yet been implemented by Ankara until now (Autumn 2013) in any way whatever...

However, despite Victims' Lawyers' stern reminder (See Infra), the CoE's Committee again withheld any warning for any possible Sanction whatever, vis a vis the Substance of this key case, which is obviously much more Serious, since it concerns Turkey's persisting Failure, for many Decades, to make any Efficient Investigation, in order to Find the Truth on what really Happened to the Victims, as well as Search, Find and Punish those Responsible for their Enforced Disappearances, according to what ECHR's case-law notoriously requires in all such cases of "Missing" Persons : The examination of this Substantial point had been already postponed again by CoE's Ministerial Committee, since last Spring, for December 2013...

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- Today, CoE's Ministers , "deeply Deploring that Turkey has still Not Complied" with "its Obligation" to pay the total amount of 180.000 € for 9 Cases of "MISSING" Persons, (i.e. 20.000 € per application lodged by the Victims' Families : 12 Thousands € for "non-pecurniary Damages", and 8 Thousands € for "Costs and Expenses" in each case : Obviously Minimal sums, compared to ECHR's average, and considering the Gravity of these cases of Massive and Prolonged Enforced Disappearances),.

- Stressing that this Duty is "UnConditional", CoE's Top Body "Exhort(s) Turkey to pay, without further Delay the Sums Awarded in the ECHR's Judgement of .. .2009", "as well as the default Interest due" since then, i.e. for "nearly 4 Years" until now (9/2013), as a Letter by one of the Victims' Lawyers noted.

But, the most important Question raised by that Lawyer of the Victims' Families, Achileas Demetriades, remains entirely Open :

- The non-executed yet ECHR Varnavas "Judgement .. relates to Applications filed More than 23 Years ago" (sic !), reminds the Victims' Lawyer, pointing to the 9 Applications on Greek Cypriot "MISSING" Persons which have been officially lodged in Strasbourg's PanEuropean Court since ... January 1990 !....

+ However, during all this Time, "the Respondent (Turkish) Government has, so far, FAILED TO CARRY OUT an EFFECTIVE INVESTIGATION in relation to the Missing Persons in issue", "in Addition to the Unpaid just satisfaction awarded" to the Victims' Families by the ECHR (Comp. Supra), denounces Lawyer Demetriades' Letter, dated September 10. Therefore, he reiterates one among many suggestions on how to make the (UNO-brokered, notoriously "Toothless") "CMP", (a body based mainly on Parity between the two sides, and not on Judicial Independence, neither on Fairness, nor on Efficiency), "become an Effective Domestic Remedy", in the Future..

But, meanwhile, given the above mentioned Facts, one can't but, sincerely, wonder :

- What really happened to the PanEuropean System for the protection of Human Rights, precisely, after these last "23 Years" ? Why has its Credibility and Efficiency gone so blatantly "MISSING" ?

Does anybody, inside CoE' Committee of Ministers, seriously believe that European Citizens of Today could really feel that, at least their Life and Personal Freedom would be fairly well Protected and "Safe", if they knew that someone might make them, all out of a sudden, "Disappear" from the face of the Earth, without anyone among their Family and Friends ever being informed about what really happened to them, and that they might face, somewhere in the "Dark", even brutal Murder, perhaps after several Inhuman/Degrading Treatments or Torture, while their Kidnapers, Torturers and/or Murderers wouldn't really have not even to give a dime, whatever the ECHR might say, after "more than 23 Years" (sic !) of Legal Procedure without even the slightest Sanction being ever imposed to anyone among those Responsible for such Horrible Crimes ?

Is it really a Time for some to let the so-called "Europen Dream", insidiously fall even Lower than Hollywood's replays of Alfred Hitchcock's Horrror" Stories, (perhaps revised by USA's Spielberg, in order to become even more Spectacular) ?....

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