Communicated on 19 October 2018

SECOND SECTION

Application no. 42305/18 Yasin OZDIL and others against the Republic of Moldova lodged on 6 September 2018

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the extradition to Turkey of five Turkish nationals, suspected of ties with the G ü len movement. The applicants were high school professors, some of whom lived and worked in Moldova for more than twenty years. All of them had valid working and residence permits and had families in Moldova. On 6 September 2018, early in the morning, the applicants ’ houses and apartments were stormed by masked persons from the Moldovan secret service. All applicants were arrested and taken to an unknown direction. Their whereabouts became unknown to their families for several days and it appeared only later that they had been extradited to Turkey on the same day by a charter flight. The Turkish press reported about a successful operation conducted in Moldova by the Turkish secret service concerning the apprehension of several members of the G ü len movement.

The applicants complain that their arrest and detention was unlawful and contrary to Article 5 of the Convention; that the decision to extradite them to Turkey did not comply with the procedural requirements of Article 1 of Protocol No. 7; that their extradition was in breach of their right to respect for private and family life as guaranteed by Article 8 of the Convention and that they did not have a fair hearing in the proceedings concerning their extradition, as required by Article 6 of the Convention.

QUESTIONS tO THE PARTIES

1. Were the applicants deprived of their liberty in breach of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention?

2. Did the decision to expel the applicants – aliens who were lawfully residing in the territory of the respondent State – comply with the procedural requirements of Article 1 of Protocol No. 7 ( Ljatifi v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia , no. 19017/16 , 17 May 2018) ?

3. Has there been a violation of the applicants ’ right to respect for their private or family life, contrary to Article 8 of the Convention?

APPENDIX

N o .

Firstname LASTNAME

Birth year

Nat.

Place of residence

Representative

Yasin OZDIL

1976Turkish

Chisinau

V. Nagacevschi

Mujdat CELEBI

1972Turkish

Chisinau

V. Nagacevschi

Riza DOGAN

1976Turkish

Chisinau

V. Nagacevschi

Sedat Hasan KARACAOGLU

1970Turkish

Chisinau

V. Nagacevschi

Mehmet Feridun TUFEKCI

1976Turkish

Comrat

V. Nagacevschi