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- Subject: TURKEY SAYS U.S. RIGHTS REPORT MISL
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:40:00 GMT
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- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: TURKEY SAYS U.S. RIGHTS REPORT MISL
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- /* Written 8:55 pm Jan 20, 1993 by sehari@iastate.edu in
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- TURKEY SAYS U.S. RIGHTS REPORT MISLEADING
- ANKARA, Jan 20, Reuter - Turkey said on Wednesday a U.S.
- State Department report on human rights would create misleading
- impressions on Ankara's record.
- ``The report includes legally unproved claims which have not
- been sufficiently investigated, creating misleading impressions
- about Turkey,'' Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Filiz Dincmen said.
- The annual report, released to the press by the U.S. embassy
- in Ankara, said the government's objectives of establishing a
- state of law based on human rights and ending the use of torture
- by security forces had not been achieved.
- ``Incidents of abuse and excessive use of force by security
- personnel persisted throughout 1992,'' it said.
- ``Both local and international human rights organisations
- reported that during 1992 at least 15 persons died in suspicious
- circumstances while in official custody, some possibly as a result
- of torture,'' it added.
- Dicmen said Turkey was a willing party to control mechanisms
- and international agreements on human rights.
- ``The numbers and verdicts of (abuse) cases brought before
- Turkish courts and the European Human Rights Commission do not
- corroborate the picture presented in the report,'' she said.
- A grim human rights record, attacked by Western watchdog
- agencies, is cited as a main obstacle to Turkey's hopes of
- full European Community membership.
- A new law on criminal trial procedure, passed in December, was
- designed to eliminate torture and mistreatment of detainees,
- shorten detention periods and give suspects immediate access to
- legal counsel.
- But it denies those rights to suspected political extremists
- and Kurdish separatists. The government says a Kurdish
- insurgency in the southeast, which has claimed about 5,300 lives
- since 1984, justifies the exemption.
- REUTER AS JA
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