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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: AI: Turkey: Fear of torture
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.011009.26458@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /** mideast.action: 13.1 **/
- ** Written 10:46 pm Dec 16, 1992 by pnmideast in cdp:mideast.action **
- From: <pnmideast>
- Subject: AI EX102/92 TURKEY Fear of torture
-
- /* Written 12:35 pm Dec 9, 1992 by rmitchellai@gn.apc.org in igc:ai.uan */
- /* ---------- "AI EX102/92 TURKEY Fear of torture" ---------- */
- EXTERNAL (for general distribution) AI Index: EUR 44/129/92
- Distr: UA/SC
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- 9 December 1992
-
- Further information on EXTRA 102/92 (EUR 44/127/92, 25
- November 1992) - Fear of Torture
-
- TURKEY: Fifty people in Viransehir including:
-
- Mahmut Ozkan, aged 60 )
- Halil Ozkan ) brothers
- Omer Ozkan )
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- Lokman, 15, son of Mahmut
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- Abdullah, 25 ) sons of
- Cengiz, 17 ) Halil
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- Sehmuz (not Mahmut as was previously stated), 14,
- son of Omer
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- Rusen, 14 (female), niece of Omer (not the daughter of a
- fourth brother as was previously stated)
-
- and the children of a fourth brother:
- Nezan, 15 (female)
- Cuco, 14
-
- Mahmut Ozkan, Evren Ozkan (the 27-year-old nephew of Mahmut),
- Abdullah Ozkan, Sehmuz Ozkan, Cuco Ozkan and his sister Nezan
- were released on 5 December 1992. Halil Ozkan apparently had not
- been detained. All the others and Hayriye Ozkan, the 18-year-old
- daughter of Mahmut, were charged and committed to prison in Urfa
- for later transfer and trial at the State Security Court in Diyarbakir.
- Charges are thought to concern support for the guerrillas of the
- Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK).
-
- It has been reported that Mahmut Ozkan was made to sit and
- watch the torture of members of his family with electric shocks,
- beating and being suspended by the wrists. His son Lokman and his
- brother Omer were allegedly kept standing with their hands bound
- above their heads for four or five days. The girls were reportedly not
- tortured, but all were denied food for five days. Lokman Ozkan suffers
- from jaundice and requires a special diet. None was issued with a
- medical certificate when examined by a doctor at the end of the
- detention period as is routine procedure.
-
- No further action is required from the Urgent Action Network. We
- thank all participants who sent appeals.
- ** End of text from cdp:mideast.action **
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