OCALAN v. TURKIYE - 24872/12 (Judgment : Article 11 - Freedom of assembly and association : Second Section Committee)

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

��������� Jovan Ilievski , President , ��������� Lorraine Schembri Orland, ��������� Diana S�rcu , judges and Dorothee von Arnim, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 24872/12) against the Republic of T�rkiye lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) on 13 March 2012 by a Turkish national, Mr Beh�et �calan, born in 1945 and living in Şanlıurfa (�the applicant�) who was represented by Mr M. Yavuz, a lawyer practising in Şanlıurfa;

the decision to give notice of the complaint concerning the applicant�s criminal conviction for organising and participating in an unlawful demonstration to the Turkish Government (�the Government�), represented by their Agent, Mr Hacı Ali A�ıkg�l, Head of the Department of Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of T�rkiye, and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;

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