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Interference with Kurdish Letters Unlawful

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Interference with Kurdish Letters Unlawful

The European Court of Human Rights convicted Turkey of a violation of the "right to respect for private life" upon an application lodged by 10 prisoners. They had applied because letters in Kurdish written to their families had not been dispatched by the prison administrations.

12 January 2011 Erol Önderoğlu