YILMAZ v. TURKIYE - 19202/11 (Judgment : Article 6 - Right to a fair trial : Second Section Committee)

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

Pauliine Koskelo , President , Lorraine Schembri Orland, Davor Derenčinović , judges , and Dorothee von Arnim, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 19202/11 ) against the Republic of Türkiye lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") on 25 March 2011 by a Turkish national, Mr Mithat Yılmaz ("the applicant"), who was born in 1973, lives in Erzurum and was initially represented by Ms Şenal Sarıhan, a lawyer practising in Ankara, and later by Mr Ü. Kılınç, a lawyer practising in Strasbourg, whom the applicant appointed as his representative by means of an authority form sent to the Court by a letter dated 22 December 2021;

the decision to give notice of the complaint under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the alleged unfairness of criminal proceedings to the Turkish Government ("the Government"), represented by their Agent, Mr Hacı Ali Açıkgül, Head of the Department of Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Türkiye, and to declare the remainder of the application inadmissible;

the decision to reject the Government's objection to the examination of the application by a Committee;