Relatives of the victims of the Gezi Park protests have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights on October 11, before exhausting the available domestic options, Hürriyet Daily News reports.
Mücella Yapıcı, the spokesperson for the Taksim Solidarity Platform that pioneered the Gezi Park protests and spoke in the name of the around 100 people who gathered before the ECHR courthouse in France’s Strasbourg, said they were appealing to the European Court before the domestic avenues were exhausted.
“We were obliged to bring this issue to the international arena because of the excessive and common breaches to the rights that derive from the European Convention on Human Rights and the universal human rights, and also the blockage of the domestic remedy,” Yapıcı is quoted as saying by the news agency.
“Compelled by these factors, we appeal to the ECHR before exhausting the domestic remedies,” she is quoted as saying.
