by TurkeyPurge | Jun 20, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Three people accused of attacking police headquarters and tortured under detention in the eastern Turkish province of Van turned out to be civilians who were collecting mushrooms on a mountainside, the Hürriyet daily reported on Monday. According to the report, they...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 7, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Bergül Varan, a Turkish woman who was briefly detained over terror charges said police tore out her hair with Ottomans military band, widely known as Mehter, playing in the background during detention. “They rooted out my hair and dance with Mehter march”...
by TurkeyPurge | May 24, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Lt. Col. Levent Turkkan, the former aide-de-camp of the Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar said his testimony was taken under torture, during his first court hearing on Tuesday. “None of my statements are genuine. I was all destroyed. They drip-fed me. They x-rayed my...
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2017 | Torture
Police officers are torturing detainees late at night when most of other staff left to their homes, according to another police officer who was detained after being dismissed from his job. Turkey’s Human Rights Association (IHD) co-chair Ozturk Turkdogan told...
by TurkeyPurge | May 18, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Şafak Pavey, who has shared her impressions from visits she paid to some well-known prisons in Turkey, has said there is widespread maltreatment, insult and torture of inmates in the prisons. Pavey, who has visited Silivri,...
by TurkeyPurge | May 16, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
İbrahim Halil Baran, the chairman of Partiya Kurdistani (PAKURD), has said he was tortured during the 13 days he was in detention, the Grihat news website reported on Saturday. Baran, who was detained on Jan. 11 and arrested on Jan. 23 for disseminating the propaganda...
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