8.  The applicant was born in 1939 and lives in Hozat district of Tunceli. 9.  On 7 October 1994 military units arrived in the applicant’s village of Kozluca. The security forces surrounded the village and set up a camp around the village. The Gendarme Commander of the village told the villagers to vacate their houses and to leave the village as the security forces were going to burn the houses. 10.  The villagers left the village and moved to Hozat, where the District Governor placed the applicant and his family in the municipal wedding hall. Other villagers were housed in tents. After they left their village the soldiers burned the houses. 11.  On 14 November 1994 the applicant filed petitions with the Prime Minister’s office, the Tunceli Provincial Governor’s office, the State of Emergency Region Governor’s office and the Welfare and Housing Minister’s office, complaining about the destruction of his home and requesting housing under the provisions of Housing Law no. 2150. 12.  On 12 January 1995 the Deputy Governor, wrote a letter in reply to the applicant, informing him that residences demolished as a result of terrorist raids do not come within the scope of the Law on Disasters (Law no. 7629 - 1051). For this reason, the applicant was not able to benefit from the Housing Law. 13.  The applicant did not pursue any other domestic remedy. 14.  In 1994 security forces took action against PKK terrorists in the province of Tunceli. The PKK terrorists began to threaten and attack villages in order to meet their needs. As a result of the pressure exerted by the PKK, the inhabitants left their villages and fled to larger settlement areas. 15.  The applicant left his village along with other villagers and moved to Hozat. The authorities there lodged him and his family in the wedding hall of the Hozat District Municipality. The applicant received financial aid between 1994 and 1996 for food, heating and health-related expenditure. 16.  On an unspecified date the inhabitants of the Kozluca village lodged criminal complaints with the Chief Public Prosecutor’s office in Hozat. They complained that the security forces in the region had burned their houses. As the case concerned an investigation of acts allegedly committed by the security forces, the public prosecutor issued a decision of non-jurisdiction and referred the investigation file to the Hozat District Governor’s office in accordance with the Law on the Prosecution of Civil Servants (Memurin Muhakematı Kanunu). 17.  The Hozat District Governor decided to discontinue the investigation on the grounds that the villagers could not identify the perpetrators and the evidence contained in the investigation file led to the conclusion that the village had been burned by PKK terrorists.