KARABULUT v. TURKIYE - 74021/12 (Judgment : Article 3 - Prohibition of torture : 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. 74021/12 ) 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 18 October 2012 by a Turkish national, Mr Mahmut Karabulut ("the applicant"), who was born in 1962 and lives in Mersin and who had been granted legal aid and was represented by Mr Ö. Özbek, a lawyer practising in Mersin;

the decision to give notice of the complaints concerning the applicant's alleged ill - treatment and lack of an effective investigation thereof 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 examination of the application by a Committee;