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Torture in Turkey

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696:, ratified by Turkey in April 1988, prohibits the use as evidence of statements extracted under torture. In addition, Article 90 of the Turkish Constitution of 1982 provides that international provisions once ratified are binding on national law. In view of the prohibition on "torture evidence", Amnesty International remains dismayed by the widespread attitude of judges in the special Heavy Penal Courts: judges are consistently failing to take measures to initiate investigation into complaints of torture or to attempt to assess the admissibility of evidence allegedly obtained illegally. 672:
condition of more than three suspects is not mentioned in the Constitution). In the Criminal Procedure Code (Law 1412) that was replaced by new legislation in 2005 the maximum time for detention was determined in Article 128. The Article provided that an apprehended person had to be taken to a judge (if not released) within 24 hours, excluding the time for the transfer to the nearest court. If the apprehended person requested, a lawyer could be present during interrogation. The prosecutor could extend this period to four days if more than three suspects were involved.
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144 names of prisoners suspected to have died under torture was published in the Turkish press the Turkish authorities provided further information. They indirectly admitted that torture could have caused the death of 40 prisoners. Amnesty International knew of another seven cases in which alleged torturers had been convicted raising the figure of confirmed deaths in custody to 47 between 1980 and 1990.
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revised draft law (amending Article 10 of Law 3713) restricts the immediate right to legal counsel for those detained on suspicion of committing terrorism offences. Paragraph (b) of the Article specifies that, at a prosecutor's request and on the decision of a judge, a detainee's right to legal counsel from the first moment of detention may be delayed by 24 hours.
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to situations of interrogation aimed at getting a confession. The sentences for torment are very low and if as before, most cases of torture are interpreted as torment not only will the sentences remain low but the possibilities to suspend the sentences increase and the limits for exceeding the time limit will be lower.
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Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) determined 37 torture techniques, such as electric shock, squeezing the testicles, hanging by the arms or legs, blindfolding, stripping the suspect naked, spraying with high-pressure water, etc. These techniques are used by the special team members and other interrogation teams.
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investigations into allegations of torture had all resulted in either dropping of charges or acquitting alleged torturers. According to the court's verdict anyone, if tortured, would sign a statement prepared by the police following a certain scenario, and there would be no contradictions in those statements.
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Overall, while the Turkish legal framework includes a comprehensive set of safeguards against torture and ill-treatment, efforts to implement it and fully apply the government's zero-tolerance policy have been limited. Allegations of torture and ill-treatment and impunity for perpetrators are still a
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In short, more than two years after the CPT's first visit, very little had been achieved as regards the strengthening of legal safeguards against torture and ill-treatment... In the light of all the information at its disposal, the CPT can only conclude that the practice of torture and other forms of
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detention). On 5 September 1981 the maximum period of detention was lowered to 45 days. Between 17 June 1985 and 12 March 1997 the maximum period of incommunicado detention was 15 days (in regions under a state of emergency it could be extended to 30 days). Until 6 February 2002 the maximum detention
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members Kemal Pir, M. Hayri Durmuş, Ali Çiçek and Akif Yılmaz started a hunger strike in Diyarbakır Prison. Kemal Pir died on 7 September 1982, M. Hayri Durmuş on 12 September 1982, Akif Yılmaz on 15 September 1982 and Ali Çiçek on 17 September 1982. On 13 April 1984 a 75-day hunger-strike started in
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to send people to check on detainees conditions. A person who'd been on duty at the Ankara police headquarters claimed that police denied medical treatment to a detainee. "Let him die. We will say he came to us dead," the witness quoted a police doctor as saying. Some of the detainees were in extreme
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The defendants appealed in their defence for their statements to the police to be taken out of the files, because they had generally been extracted under torture... In accordance with the legislation it was not possible to take their statements to the police out of the files, as these statement have
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Even of it happens that the confession was obtained using torture or other kinds of fraudulent means were applied this kind of behaviour is a different quality in the responsibility of the men on duty so that there is no judicial objection to evaluate the confession and base the verdict on it, if it
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Article 148 of Law 5271 proscribes that a lawyer has to be present, when the testimony of a suspect is being taken (the testimony must be signed by a lawyer, otherwise it is not valid). At the end of June 2006 various changes to the Law 3713 on the Fight against Terrorism were made. Article 9 of the
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Like torture the offence of "torment" (suffering) has not been defined. It is left to the interpretation as to which kind of act will fall under Article 94 or Article 96 of Law 5237. A similar distinction existed between Articles 243 and 245 of the former TPC, since the first provision only referred
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The first paragraph of Article 243 TPC restricted the offence of torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment to acts aimed at eliciting confession to a crime or in cases of victims or witnesses aimed at influencing the decision to make certain statements or complaints. The maximum sentence was
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In an attempt to obtain detailed information Amnesty International submitted 110 cases to the Turkish authorities between September 1981 and October 1984. On 10 June 1988 AI sent a list with 229 names to the Turkish authorities and in September 1998 received answers on 55 cases. Only after a list of
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In a detailed research that cited torture cases across Turkey's prisons and detention centers, Stockholm Center for Freedom revealed that the torture, ill-treatment, abusive, inhuman and degrading treatment of people who are deprived of their liberties in Turkey's detention centers and prisons after
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Following the wide-scale torture incidents in 2016, The UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Prof. Nils Melzer, visited Turkey two times. While his first visit was focused on freedom of press and expression and the second one was focused on
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The demand of some defence lawyers to remove the statements of E.K. to the police, the prosecutor and the arresting judge from the file, because they had not been obtained in a lawful manner and did not constitute legal evidence was rejected, because there is no provision in law to remove documents
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For offences that had to be dealt with by State Security Courts (under the new legislation they are called "heavy penal courts authorized according to Article 250 of Law 5271") the maximum period of 24 hours in detention as provided in Article 91 of Law 5271 is set at 48 hours, according to Article
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The Criminal Procedure Code (Law 5271 as of 1 June 2005) regulates the length of custody in Article 91. Again the maximum length of detention is determined to be 24 hours. Article 90 of Law 5271 maintains the maximum length of detention in cases of commonly committed offences as four days. However,
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In practice Article 245 TPC was more often used than Article 243 TPC. The figures of the General Directorate of Criminal Registration and Statistics within the Justice Minister indicate that for every four trials under Article 245 TPC there was one trial under Article 243 TC. On 11 January 2003 one
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The information gathered during the CPT’s December 2005 visit would indicate that the curve of ill-treatment by law enforcement officials remains on the decline. However, there are clearly no grounds for complacency, all the more so as reports continue to appear of ill-treatment by law enforcement
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Some progress has been made. The CPT's findings in the course of a visit to Turkey in October 1994 demonstrated that torture and other forms of severe ill-treatment were still important characteristics of police custody in that country. ...the Committee has continued to receive credible reports of
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was reached that asked Turkey to shorten the detention period, lift martial law and present periodic reports. Turkey had shortened the maximum length of detention in May and June 1985 from 45 days to 30 days in areas under emergency legislation and to 15 days in areas not under extraordinary rule.
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was to extend the maximum period of detention from 15 to 30 and then to 90 days. (see the relevant section below). Amnesty International has repeatedly documented that, in practice, incommunicado detention is often longer than legally permitted. Specialized teams in İstanbul, Ankara and Diyarbakır
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Since 2002 the following rules apply. Article 19 of the Constitution provides in paragraph 5 that the maximum time a person may be kept in detention, apart from the time of transfer to the nearest court, is 48 hours. This period is extended to four days in case of jointly committed offences (the
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was given as the reason for 26 deaths. On the basis of this list Helmut Oberdiek compiled a revised list for 20 years (12 September 1980 to 12 September 2000) and concluded that in 428 cases torture may have been the reason for the death of prisoners. In 2008 alone the Human Rights Foundation of
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Suspects are blindfolded and handcuffed immediately after detention. Even common criminal suspects are stripped naked during interrogation and left like that, often after being hosed with ice-cold water or left on the concrete floors of cells in harsh conditions of winter. The HRA and the Human
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were responsible for the interrogation of specific organizations and groups. İsmail Hakkı, for instance, said that between 1979 and 1985 he worked in the place called political department (at the time "first department") of Istanbul Police HQ in the "K" section (which may be the abbreviation of
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Torture had been banned in Turkey, even before the Turkish Republic was founded. All Constitutions since 1876 carried provisions against torture. The crime of torture was first defined in Article 103 of the penal code of 1858. Between 1926 and 2005 the Turkish Penal Code (TPC) was Law 765. Two
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In September 1994 and September 1995 the HRFT published two reports on Deaths in Custody (14 and 15 years since the military take over) presenting a list of 419 deaths in custody (in 15 years) with a suspicion that torture might have been the reason. Another 15 deaths were attributed to hunger
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During the year human rights organizations documented a rise in cases of torture, beatings, and abuse by security forces... A December parliamentary Human Rights Investigation Commission report found that, between 2003 and 2008, 2 percent of the 2,140 personnel who were investigated due to
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The current government has enacted new laws and training to prevent torture, including a policy involving surprise inspections of police stations that was announced in 2008. A government human rights report issued for the first time in 2008 found that the combined category of torture and
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eight years' imprisonment. Article 245 TPC provided for sentences of three months to five years' imprisonment if civil servants entitled to use force or other law enforcement officers resorted to bad treatment or imposed suffering on others beyond the orders of superiors and other rules.
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In a verdict by Erzincan Military Court No. 2, dated 24 January 1984, the judges stated that the allegations of torture were all unfounded (pages 169 to 177). The judges concluded that none of the defendants could have been tortured, because there was no evidence in the medical reports;
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There are many more methods applied in Turkey during the past and the present. In the annual reports of the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centres of the Human Rights Foundation the list of methods covers one page. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture observed that
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Prosecutors and judges should not require conclusive proof of physical torture or ill-treatment (much less final conviction of an accused perpetrator) before deciding not to rely as against the detainee on confessions or information alleged to have been obtained by such
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Taking into account also the other information gathered by the delegation in the course of its visit to Turkey the CPT has reached the conclusion that torture and other forms of severe ill-treatment are important characteristics of police custody in
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Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 14 (previously Istanbul SSC No. 6) in an interim decision during the hearing of a trial against six alleged members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) on 30 July 2004 (ground number 2004/75):
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paragraph was added to Article 245 TPC providing that sentences passed under Articles 243 or 245 TPC could not be commuted to fines, be made conditional or be suspended. This provision against impunity was not included in the Penal Code of 2005.
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the maximum period that person could be held in custody (of police or gendarmerie) was extended from 15 to 30 days. On 7 November 1980 this period was increased to 90 days (3 months), during which time they had no contact to the outside world
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The UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak published a report on various countries on 15 March 2007. Pages 119 to 129 relate to Turkey. Among the recommendations was
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The military applied torture to political prisoners as a matter of policy. Affidavits confirmed that martial law commanders, military prosecutors and judicial advisors gave order to torture political prisoners, sometime supervising it.
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251 of Law 5271. This Article also provides that if offences under Article 250 of Law 5271 are committed in regions under a state of emergency the maximum of 4 days detention for commonly committed offences can be extended to 7 days.
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See a German translation of Mehmet Semih Gemalmaz: "Türkiye Yargısının İşkence Karşısında Tavrı (The attitude of the Turkish judiciary towards torture), Ankara 1993. An online edition of the German translation is available at
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The information gathered during the visit from various sources suggests that resort to some of the most severe methods of ill-treatment encountered in the past by CPT delegations has diminished in recent times in the Istanbul
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The Turkish Penal Code passed on 26 September 2004 as Law 5237 entered into force on 1 June 2005. Like the former Penal Code (Law 765) it included the offence of torture and ill-treatment but added the offence of torment
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not been assessed as evidence of the defendants' confessions. These statements have been quoted from time to tome, if other evidence and documents existed showing that the defendants committed the alleged crime.
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became the main body to monitor the situation, but other bodies such as the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (see the section on reports) also visited Turkey in order to evaluate the risk of torture in Turkey.
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and others, were tortured between 1944 and 1945. In 1945 the military prison in Istanbul moved from Tophane to Harbiye. In one section 40 cells were built measuring 1,5 by 2 metres. Alleged members of the
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severe ill-treatment of persons in police custody remains widespread in Turkey and that such methods are applied to both ordinary criminal suspects and persons held under anti-terrorism provisions.
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burned himself to death on 21 March 1982 in protest at the treatment in prison. Ferhat Kurtay, Necmi Önen, Mahmut Zengin and Eşref Anyık followed his example on 17 May 1982. On 14 July 1982 the
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provisions of Law 765 provided for punishment in case of torture (Article 243) or ill-treatment (Article 245). Both offences were entitled "bad treatment of civil servants against citizens".
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Amnesty International: "Turkey: Torture and Unfair Trial of Political Prisoners. Case Studies between August 1988 and August 1989", AI London, October 1989, AI-Index: EUR 44/101/89, p. 28f.
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was tortured here in 1910. He raised torture allegations in parliament. The demand to establish a commission to investigate the torture allegations was turned down by 96 against 73 votes.
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The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the U.S. Department of State publish annual country reports. The 2008 report on Turkey was published on 25 February 2009. It stated
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in 1988. The reports of the CPT are confidential, but most countries have agreed that these reports are made public. Turkey did so after a visit of the CPT in February/March 1999.
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the period can be extended for one day at a time (for a maximum of three times). The order for extension of the time in custody again is given by a prosecutor (not a judge).
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extended the maximum period of detention for suspects from four days to 30, a move Amnesty said increased the risk of torture or other maltreatment of detainees.
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300-page report (in German) by Helmut Oberdiek for Amnesty International Germany, Pro Asyl, and Holtfort-Stiftung, February 23, 2006, (accessed January 1, 2007)
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emotional distress, with one detainee attempting to throw himself out of a sixth story window and another repeatedly slamming his head against the wall.
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After the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923 Sansaryan Han and the Harbiye Military Prison became the symbols for torture. Having been built in
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Many more prisoners died as a result of hunger strikes and fast-to-death actions. Most deaths occurred during the actions against the isolation in the
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In the 1980s particularly Amnesty International issued many reports and urgent actions related to allegations of torture in Turkey. Some quotes are:
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July 15, 2016, coup bid have become a norm rather than an exception under increased nationalistic euphoria and religious zealotry in the country.
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and international bodies like the Council of Europe sent delegations to Turkey to investigate the torture claims. On 1 July 1982 five States (
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which was used as a torture centre especially during the 12 March period. At the Ziverbey Estate well known people such as the journalists
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No one shall be subjected to torture or ill-treatment; no one shall be subjected to penalties or treatment incompatible with human dignity
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Amnesty International, Turkey: Background to the Devrimci Yol trial in Ankara, AI Index: EUR 44/47/88, 27 June 1988, reproduced as an
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Over a quarter of a million people were arrested in Turkey on political grounds since 1980 and almost all of them were tortured. The
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Tarihçesi ve Yaşayanların Anlatımlarıyla - İşkence - 1 (Torture 1 with History and Stories of Victims); Collected by: Ali Osman Köse
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Tarihçesi ve Yaşayanların Anlatımlarıyla - İşkence - 1 (Torture 1 with History and Stories of Victims); Collected by: Ali Osman Köse
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in 1895 Sansaryan Han became the police headquarters of Istanbul in 1944. People that were tortured here include poet and writer
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publishes annual reports on progress of countries that have asked for accession. The report on Turkey of 14 October 2009 stated
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The Constitution of 1982 contains the prohibition of torture in the last two sentences of the first paragraph of Article 17: "
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There are numerous reports by international bodies and national and international NGOs on the problem of torture in Turkey.
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period for offences dealt with at the State Security Court was seven days (10 days in regions under a state of emergency).
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File of Torture: Deaths in Detention Places or Prisons (12 September 1980 to 12 September 1995), Ankara, March 1996
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the most severe methods of ill-treatment encountered in the past by CPT delegations has diminished in recent times
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Istanbul. As a result, four prisoners - Abdullah Meral, Haydar Başbağ, Fatih Ökütülmüş and Hasan Telci - died.
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Turkey: Briefing on the Wide-Ranging, Arbitrary and Restrictive Draft Revisions to the Law to Fight Terrorism
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More prisoners lost their lives during operations of the security forces in prisons. The incidents include:
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United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
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At the end of 1992 the CPT felt obliged to make a public statement on Turkey and said inter alias
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European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
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Samples of court rulings on allegations that statements had been extracted under torture include:
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ill-treatment was the third-most-common complaint in 2007, after property rights and health care.
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The AI report "Turkey: Deaths in Custody" was published in the newsletter of January 1989. The
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HRFT publishes Torture Atlas, article in Turkish on 24 April 2008; accessed on 24 October 2009
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10th General Report on the CPT's activities covering the period 1 January to 31 December 1999
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can be found on the English pages of the Democratic Turkey Forum; accessed on 8 November 2009
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der türkischen Gerichtsbarkeit zur Folter|Haltung der türkischen Gerichtsbarkeit zur Folter
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Verdict of the Panel of Chambers at the Military Court of Cassation of 17 February 1983: ".
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UN Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
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This verdict numbered 1982/594-831 and the one above were quoted in the trial against the
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torture and ill-treatment by Turkish law enforcement officials throughout 1995 and 1996.
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the cases of torture under police custody and in prisons. His reports are published at
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published a report entitled Mass Torture and Ill-Treatment in Turkey in June 2017. The
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http://www.freedomfromtorture.org/sites/default/files/documents/FFT_Ann.Rev-2011-f.pdf
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As of October 2009 the latest report on torture in custody concerns a visit in 2005
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has issued critical reports on the extent of torture in Turkey since the 1990s. The
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and has continued to issue critical reports, particularly after the outbreak of the
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Details can be found in the annual reports of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey
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that was included in the newsletter of September 1987 is available as images under
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Expert Helmut Oberdiek on Human Rights in Germany's internal and foreign affairs
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Verdict of Chamber 3 at the Military Court of Cassation of 14 December 1982: "
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The remarks were taken from the book of Meryem Erdal: İşkence ve Cezasızlık (
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Turkey reported of 39 deaths in prison. In some cases torture was involved.
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press release of 11 September 2001, (Turkish); accessed on 24 October 2009
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EUR 44/009/2006 Date Published: 11 June 2006; accessed on 9 November 2009
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accusations of torture or mistreatment were given disciplinary sentences.
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The verdict with numbered 1983/49-43 was quoted Mehmet Semih Gemalmaz:
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estimates there are around one million victims of torture in Turkey.
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that enabled him to detect effects of it a long time after torture.
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Verdict of Izmir State Security Court (SSC) of 29 November 1988: "
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Serdar Çelik: Turkey's Killing Machine: The Contra-Guerrilla Force
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article in Evrensel of 12 May 2008; accessed on 25 October 2009
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Dersim 1938 ve zorunlu iskân: telgraflar, dilekçeler, mektuplar
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an article of Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu published on 20 September 2009
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Ali Sarıbal, on 13 November 1981 in Diyarbakır Military Prison
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The report on a visit between 16 and 24 July 2000 concluded:
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Taksim'de Bomba, 12 Eylül Darbesi ve Anayasa Değişiklikleri
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Similar information (page 317 of the book) can be found in
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is being supported by other evidence or material incidents
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Engin Ceber, on 10 October 2008 in Metris Prison, İstanbul
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Four years later another public statement was published.
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torture was applied in police centres and centres of the
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an article of Demirtaş Ceyhun in BİANET of 3 August 2009
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at Ankara Military Court No. 1 (verdict of 7 April 1987
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Bedii Tan, on 17 May 1982 in Diyarbakır Military Prison
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the report on the visit in 2005 dates 6 September 2006
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European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)
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the report on the visit in 2000 dates 8 November 2001
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Index

Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Turkish Armed Forces
Turkish police
Dersim rebellion
Sansaryan Han
Harbiye
Istanbul
Amnesty International
1971 Turkish coup d'état
Kurdish-Turkish conflict
Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Stockholm Center for Freedom
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Committee of Union and Progress
Bekirağa Bölüğü
Rıza Nur
Sirkeci
Attilâ İlhan
Workers Party of Turkey
Nâzım Hikmet
Racism-Turanism trials
Nihal Atsız
Zeki Velidi Togan
Nejdet Sançar
Communist Party of Turkey
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Grey Wolves
1980 Turkish coup d'état

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