by TurkeyPurge | May 14, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Two people, detained over alleged links to the Gulen movement have said during their hearing before the judge that they were threatened with rape while under custody at Ankara police department. According to translation of their statements by the Stockholm Center for...
by TurkeyPurge | May 9, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Credible reports of mass torture and abuse in an unofficial detention center in the Turkish capital have been received by the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF), a monitoring group for rights violations in Turkey, according to a report on their website on Monday. An...
by TurkeyPurge | May 1, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
Under arrest since mid-January, pro-Kurdish DIHA news agency editor Ömer Çelik has said he was forced to stand in a bucket filled with cold water, by police officers who took him into custody late December, 2016. An Istanbul court ruled on arrest of Çelik and his two...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 8, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
In the latest of firsthand letters revealing re-emergence of torture in Turkish prisons, an Antalya arrestee reportedly said he was beaten so badly that he blacked out for some time while he was also threatened with rape. Detained after a regular police check on Jan...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 6, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Human Tragedies, Torture
M.E., a 34-year-old Turkish man who used to work at a student dormitory affiliated with the Gülen movement, has told the New York Times that he was subjected to sexual assault, beatings and asphyxiation in prison. In last part of State of Emergency article series,...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2017 | Torture
Turkey’s Interior Minister’s Süleyman Soylu defended brutal treatment on Abdi Abidin, Kurdish man who was alleged to have been tortured while under prison, saying he was linked to terrorist activities. “He talks about an elderly man. He says: ‘You are torturing him!’...
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