The pending Bosphorus case before the European Court of Human Rights may provide an illustration.

We wish to mention a recent judgement handed down on 30 June 2005 by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Bosphorus Airways v. Ireland.

General sent me to Sicily with a morbid task, to pick up the corpse of an old Turkish colonel who died from sunstroke while on manoeuvres in the Bosphorus.

For the view that the Bosphorus case mainly involves the way in which the defendant State implemented a Community measure, see G. Cohen Jonathan, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme et droit international général (2000), Annuaire français de droit international, vol. 46 (2000), p. 614 at pp. 619 620.

Then there is the issue of the Alevis, a religious minority linked to Sufism and Shi ism. The Alevis, who had been protected by the secular Kemalist state, deeply distrust Erdoğan, who further unsettled them by planning to name a new bridge over the Bosphorus after a sixteenth century sultan who massacred their forebears.

A recent case before the European Court of Human Rights, Bosphorus Hava Yollari Turizm ve Ticaret AS v. Ireland, had raised the question of whether and, if so, in what circumstances, a member State of a regional international organization in the case in question, the European Community should be held responsible for conduct which it was obliged to carry out by the law of that international organization.