Interim Resolution c

Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

Cyprus against Turkey

(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 16 September 2021

at the 1411 th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)

Application No.

Case

Judgment of

Final on

25781/94

CYPRUS v. TURKEY

10/05/2001

12/05/2014

Grand Chamber

The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”);

Having regard to the judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in this case and to the fourteen violations of the Convention relating to a number of issues regarding the situation in the northern part of Cyprus since the military intervention by Turkey in July and August 1974;

Recalling that in its judgment on just satisfaction, of 12 May 2014, the Court held that the respondent State is to pay the applicant government, within three months, EUR 30,000,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered by the relatives of missing persons and EUR 60,000,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered by the enclaved Greek Cypriot residents of the Karpas peninsula; recalling also that the Court indicated that these amounts should be distributed by the applicant government to the individual victims under the supervision of the Committee of Ministers within 18 months of the date of payment or within any other period considered appropriate by the Committee of Ministers;

Recalling also that the deadline for payment expired on 12 August 2014;

Recalling its previous decisions in this case concerning the issue of the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court;

EXPRESSED PROFOUND CONCERN that the just satisfaction awarded by the Court has not yet been paid despite its repeated appeals and that prolonged delays in fulfilling this obligation not only deprive the individual victims from receiving compensation for the damages suffered by them, but also is in flagrant disrespect of the unconditional obligation under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention to pay the just satisfaction awarded by the Court;

FIRMLY REITERATED its insistence on the unconditional obligation under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention to pay the just satisfaction awarded by the Court;

STRONGLY URGED the Turkish authorities to abide by this obligation and pay the just satisfaction, together with the default interest accrued, without further delay,

DECIDED TO RESUME CONSIDERATION of this issue at the next examination of the case of Cyprus v. Turkey.