The son of the martyr killed by the EOKA members in Cyprus brought the legal struggle to the ECHR

Fahri Onbaşı, the son of the martyr Turkish Cypriot Turgut Fahri, who was murdered by the terrorist organization EOKA in Cyprus in 1963, brought the legal struggle he launched in the Greek Cypriot side to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). 

Fahri Onbaşı spoke to Anadolu Agency (AA) at his father’s home in Lefkoşa, where he was taken by EOKA members in 1963. 

Onbaşı talked about the identification of his murdered father from his bones by DNA test, the resort of the matter to the jurisdiction and the process in the ECHR, and shared the documents of the massacre with AA. 

Stating that his father was executed with a bullet to his head in water well with 4 Turkish Cypriots in the Strovolo region of the Greek Cypriot part of Cyprus, Onbaşı said that the Missing Persons Committee informed them in 2013 about the event so the Greek Cypriot police reached out to them via the daily Kıbrıs Newspaper. 

Stating that they gave a 6-page report to the Greek Cypriot police on the subject and that the process started after that, Onbaşı said, “We wanted to file a case with the Greek Cypriot side regarding this process. Unfortunately, domestic law is never practiced for the Turks in the Greek Cypriot side. In this process, many obstacles were brought to me in the Greek Cypriot side. There were problems that this process would not work. This report, which was found in the Strovolo police in 2014, came to us in the form of a report on February 8, 2022, by the Greek Cypriot Chief Prosecutor’s Office. 

Pointing out that Strasbourg allows the Turkish Cypriots to apply if there is a report of such an incident, Onbaşı said that this application should be made to the ECHR, however, within 4 months after the report was created. He stated that they forwarded the file to Strasbourg through lawyers.