CASE OF YATIR v. TURKEY
Violation of P1-1;Pecuniary damage - financial award;Costs and expenses award - Convention proceedings
4. The applicant was born in 1958 and lives in Mersin. 5. The General Directorate of National Roads and Highways (Devlet Karayolları Genel Müdürlüğü), a State body responsible, inter alia, for motorway construction, expropriated four plots of land belonging to the applicant in İçel in order to build a motorway. A committee of experts assessed the value of the land and the sum so fixed was paid to her when the expropriation took place. 6. Following the applicant’s request for increased compensation, on 31 December 1993 the Mersin Civil Court of First Instance awarded her additional compensation of 238,172,000 Turkish liras (TRL) (approximately 14,341 euros (EUR)), plus interest at the statutory rate applicable at the date of the court’s decision, running from 22 June 1993. 7. On 15 December 1997 the Court of Cassation upheld the judgment of 31 December 1993. 8. On 21 April 1998 the administration paid the applicant TRL 651,598,000 (approximately EUR 2,391) in additional compensation, together with interest. 9. The relevant domestic law and practice are set out in the Aka v. Turkey judgment of 23 September 1998 (Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1998-VI, §§ 17-25).