European Court Convicts Torture To A Peace Mother

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) sentenced Turkey to make compensation payments in the amount of 26.534 euro in the cases filed by Yunus Atalay, a member of the Peace Mothers Hadiye Dur and Mahfuz Türkan on the grounds that they were subjected to bad and dishonorable treatment.

A small tradesperson, a worker and a Peace Mother manage to have bad treatment punished

Turkey will pay 9 thousand euro to Yunus Atalay, who was beaten by the police for refusing to clean the writing of “DHKPC” on the wall of his shop in Beyoğlu, Istanbul.

Hadiye Dur will be paid his compensation for getting beaten and tear-gassed when 42 “Peace Mother” and she were trying to meet with the authorities at the Motherland Party’s (ANAP) District Branch and for being subjected to more violence and insults in the Police Department where she spent the night on October 27, 1998. She will be paid 9534 euro.

The ECHR dismissed Dur’s other application for the investigation of the police office F.M.S. on the grounds that the complaint was not investigated in sufficient detail.

Mahfuz Türkan, who was taken into custody and manhandled on July 5, 1998, while working at the tea house of the Eserler Bus Terminal, won his case for the same reasons, too. The ECHR sentenced Turkey to pay 5000 euro to Türkan. It based its decision on the medical reports Türkan had obtained from the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) and the Judiciary Medical Institution of Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, according to which Türkan was beaten to the point of losing his capacity to work for five days. (EÖ/TK)