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European Court of Human Rights: Aksu v. Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Christiane Bourloyannis-Vrailas*
Affiliation:
Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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Endnotes

1 This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the European Court of Human Rights Web site (visited September 15, 2012) http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-109577.

1 Aksu v. Turkey [GC], App. Nos. 4149/04 & 41029/04 (Eur. Ct. H.R. Mar. 15, 2012).

2 European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Nov. 4, 1950, ETS No. 5, 213 U.N.T.S. 222 (entered into force Sept. 3, 1953).

3 Von Hannover v. Germany (No. 2) [GC], App. Nos. 40660/08 & 60641/08 (Eur. Ct. H.R. Feb. 7, 2012); Axel Springer AG v. Germany [GC], App. No. 39954/08 (Eur. Ct. H.R. Feb. 7, 2012). The first case concerned the publication of photos of Princess Caroline of Monaco while on a skiing holiday; one of the photos was accompanied by an article on her father’s illness. The second case dealt with the publication of articles on the arrest of a well-known television actor for possession of cocaine.

4 Aksu v. Turkey, App. Nos. 4149/04 & 41029/04 (Eur. Ct. H.R. July 27, 2010).

5 See, e.g., Pretty v. United Kingdom, Eur. Ct. H.R. 2002-III ¶ 61.

6 See, e.g., Pfeifer v. Austria, App. No. 12556/03, ¶ 35 (Eur. Ct. H.R. Nov. 15, 2007); but see, e.g., Polanco Torres & Movilla Polanco v. Spain, App. No. 34147/06, ¶ 40 (Eur. Ct. H.R. Sept. 21, 2010) (referring to a threshold of gravity of the allegations against a person’s reputation to trigger Article 8 protection).

7 S. & Marper v. United Kingdom [GC], App. Nos. 30562/04 & 30566/04, ¶ 66 (Eur. Ct. H.R. Dec. 4, 2008).

8 See Aksu, supra note 1, ¶ 58.

9 See, e.g., X & Y v. Netherlands, 91 Eur. Ct. H.R (ser. A), ¶ 23 (1985).

10 As regards the book, the applicant originally filed a complaint also against the Ministry of Culture that had published it, but he did not pursue the case against the state’authorities. It must also be noted that in the meantime the Ministry had returned the copyright to the author.

11 See Aksu, supra note 1, ¶¶ 62-68.

12 See, e.g., Sunday Times v. United Kingdom (no. 2), 217 Eur. Ct. H.R (ser. A), ¶ 50 (1991).

13 Von Hannover, supra note 3, ¶¶ 108-13; Springer, supra note 3, ¶¶ 89-95.

14 See, e.g., Chapman v. United Kingdom [GC], Eur. Ct. H.R. 2001-1, ¶ 96.

15 See Aksu, supra note 1, ¶¶ 75, 85.