SECOND SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 40029/05 by Tuncer BAKIRHAN and Others against Turkey

The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 7 December 2010 as a Committee composed of:

Dragoljub Popović , President, András Sajó , Kristina Pardalos , judges, and Françoise Elens-Passos , Deputy Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 12 October 2005,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

THE FACTS

The application was lodged by eight Turkish nationals whose names appear in the appendix . They are rep resented before the Court by Mr H . Geylani , Mr Y.G. Arslan and Mr M. Tanzi , lawyers practising in Ankara . The Turkish Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Ag ent.

The applicant s ’ complaint under Article 10 of the Convention was communicated to the Government, who submitted their observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicant s , who were invited to submit their own observations. No reply was received to the Registry ’ s letter.

By letter dated 22 September 2010 , sent by registered post, the applicant s ’ representatives were notified that the period allowed for submission of their observations had expired on 12 July 2010 and that no extension of time had been requested. The attention of the applica nts ’ representative s w ere drawn to Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, which provides that the Court may strike a case out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicant does not intend to pursue the application. They received this letter on 8 October 2010 . However, no response has been received by the Court.

THE LAW

The Court considers that, in these circumstances, the applicant s may be regarded as no longer wishing to pursue their application, within the meaning of Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention. Furtherm ore, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 in fine , the Court finds no special circumstances regarding respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols which require the continued examination of the case.

In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court unanimously

Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.

Françoise Elens - Passos Dragoljub Popović Deputy Registrar President

ANNEX

List of applicants

LastName

Firstname

Birth date

MÄ°ROÄžLU

Orhan

11/03/1952

BAKIRHAN

Tuncer

28/12/1970

BÃœYÃœKÅžAHÄ°N

Veli

02/03/1971

YILMAZ

Hüseyin

20/10/1956

DEÄžER

Muammer

22/05/1960

ÇOBAN

Hatice

01/06/1949

ÖNLÜ

Alican

27/12/1967

TUSUN

Memet

01/06/1949