4.  The applicant was born in 1979 and lives in Ankara. 5.  On 19 July 1995 the applicant was taken into police custody by officers from the anti-terror branch of the Ankara Security Directorate in the course of an operation carried out against an illegal organisation, namely the DHKP/C (Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front). 6. On 31 July 1995 the applicant was brought before a judge who ordered his detention on remand. 7.  On 16 August 1995 the public prosecutor at the Ankara State Security Court filed a bill of indictment charging the applicant as well as twelve other persons with membership of an illegal organisation, an offence defined in Article 168 § 2 of the Turkish Criminal Code. 8.  On 5 June 1997 the Ankara State Security Court convicted the applicant of aiding and abetting the members of the DHKP/C, an offence defined in Article 169 of the Criminal Code, and sentenced him to two years and six months’ imprisonment. 9.  The applicant appealed against the judgment. 10.  On 17 April 1998 the Court of Cassation upheld the Ankara State Security Court’s judgment. 11.  On an unspecified date the applicant was released from detention.