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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: AI: TURKEY Fear of torture
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.011032.26637@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- ** Written 10:09 pm Dec 16, 1992 by pnmideast in cdp:mideast.action **
- From: <pnmideast>
- Subject: AI EX097/92 TURKEY Fear of torture
-
- /* Written 7:00 pm Dec 8, 1992 by rmitchellai@gn.apc.org in igc:ai.uan */
- /* ---------- "AI EX097/92 TURKEY Fear of torture" ---------- */
- EXTERNAL (for general distribution) AI Index: EUR 44/128/92
- Distr: UA/SC
-
- 8 December 1992
-
- Further information on EXTRA 97/92 (EUR 44/117/92, 6 November
- 1992) - Fear of Torture/Death in Custody
-
- TURKEY: Sukru Yilmaz ) brothers
- Habib Yilmaz )
- Irfan Solak ] brothers
- Salih Solak ]
- Bahri Gitmez
- Serhat Baytar
- M Sirin Dogan
- Resul Balta
- Ebubekir Gunes
-
- and the three brothers:
- Nuri Adlik
- Tahsin Adlik
- Haci Adlik
-
- and Ramazan Altunsoz (died on or about 30 October 92)
-
- and new Serif Argun
- names: Tahsin Adibelli
- Yahsin Adibelli
-
- The major police operation in and around Batman which began on 16
- October 1992 is still continuing and new detentions are constantly
- being made. Some 30 to 40 people are believed still to be in police
- custody, including the brothers Irfan and Salih Solak, who have been
- held far beyond the legally permitted limit of 30 days. Serif Argun,
- Tahsin Adibelli and Yahsin Adibelli have been newly detained in
- recent days. It is feared that they are being interrogated under torture.
-
- Sukru Yilmaz was released on or around 20 November. It is not
- known whether a court case will be opened against him. According to
- reports received he was tortured during the first four to five days of
- detention with electric shocks and hanging by his wrists, and was
- interrogated about alleged links with guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers'
- Party (PKK). Subsequently he was allowed to see members of his
- family, but his brother Habib who came to visit him on the fifth day
- of his detention was detained as well. Habib Yilmaz was not released
- until 4 December. (For an account of Sukru Yilmaz' torture in March
- 1992 when yet another fellow detainee died in custody, see: EXTRA
- 26/92, EUR 44/28/92 of 13 March 1992 and follow-up EUR 44/32/92
- of 24 March 1992)
-
- The brothers Tahsin and Haci Adlik were released on or around 7
- November. M. Sirin Dogan was released on 30 November.
-
- Some of those detained have now been formally arrested. These
- include M. Nuri Adlik and others who were not named in the original
- action - Mehmet Kaya, Ahmet Aydin, Osman Aslan, Ebeddin Soyut
- and Fahrettin Inal. They were charged with aiding and sheltering
- guerrillas of the PKK on 4 December. Some of them had been found
- in the possession of firearms and were also charged with unlawful
- possession of a weapon.
-
- All of the detainees, except Habib Yilmaz, are said to have
- reported that they were tortured while in police custody with falaka
- (beating the soles of the feet) and hanging by the wrists. Fahrettin Inal
- had been taken to a deserted place and then threatened that he would
- be killed. None was issued with a medical certificate when examined
- by a doctor at the end of the detention period as is routine procedure.
-
- The state prosecutor stated that he was investigating the death in
- custody of Ramazan Altunsoz, the third in Batman this year. Thirteen
- detainees altogether have died in police custody in Turkey this year.
-
- FURTHER RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send
- telegrams/telexes/faxes/express and airmail letters in English or your
- own language:
-
- - noting that detainees allege having been tortured at Batman Police
- Headquarters where three detainees have died already this year;
-
- - expressing concern about the safety of those detainees still held in
- incommunicado detention at Batman Police Headquarters, in particular
- the brothers Irfan and Salih Solak who have been held for more than
- 30 days, in violation of legal detention procedures;
-
- - urging that all those still held in police custody in Batman be
- permitted access to their families and to legal counsel, and that they
- are not subjected to any form of torture or ill-treatment,
-
- - repeating your call for a thorough and impartial investigation into the
- death in custody of Ramazan Altunsoz who died in Batman Police
- Headquarters at the end of October 1992, and that those responsible
- be brought promptly to justice.
-
- APPEALS TO:
-
- Batman Public Prosecutor:
-
- Mr Mustafa Yucel [Salutation: Dear Sir]
- Batman Savciligi
- Batman, Turkey
- Telegrams: Cumhuriyet Savcisi, Batman, Turkey
-
- Minister of Justice:
-
- Mr Seyfi Oktay [Salutation: Dear Minister]
- Adalet Bakanligi
- 06659 Ankara, Turkey
- Telegrams: Justice Minister, Ankara, Turkey
- Faxes: + 90 4 425 40 66
-
- Prime Minister:
-
- Mr Suleyman Demirel [Salutation: Dear Prime Minister]
- Office of the Prime Minister
- Basbakanlik
- 06573 Ankara, Turkey
- Telegrams: Prime Minister, Ankara, Turkey
- Telexes: 44061/44062/44063 bbmt tr
- 42099 basb tr, 42875 bbk tr
- Faxes: + 90 4 417 04 76
- + 90 4 230 88 96
-
- COPIES TO:
-
- President of the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission:
-
- Mr Sabri Yavuz
- Insan Haklari Arastirma Komisyonu Baskani
- TBMM
- Ankara, Turkey
-
- and to the diplomatic representative in your country - please see the
- responses to this topic for details.
-
- PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Please do not send
- appeals after 4 January 1993.
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