Daily Birgün Reader Harassed And Threatened By Police

Tutku Türkol was apprehended by Kadıköy/İstanbul police on September 5 for having a copy of the Birgün newspaper with her.

The victim claimed that the police had taken her Birgün and ripped it to pieces, while asking her why she was reading it and from where she way buying it. Following this, she was apprehended and kept in the station for a while, being verbally and physically harassed in the process.

Eighteen-year Türkol was kept in the station for forty minutes and threatened. She says she will go after them.

Contepe: Those responsible for this outrage should be suspended

Co-Spokesperson of the Greens Party Bilge Contepe said in the announcement he made, “These police officers who committed this crime should be suspended, but this is not it. All the police officers who are responsible for this outrage, from the superior of the Moda Station to the chief of Istanbul Police, should be suspended until the investigation is over.”

Reminding that a young women was abducted by the police for having a perfectly legal newspaper, taken to a police station, harassed, threatened and subjected to violence, Contepe asks what period this is and where we are living.

“This is the same mentality that does not punish the torturers; the same mentality that violates the democratic rights of those at the May Day meetings, at anti nuclear demonstrations in Sinop; the same mentality that ignores the violence and harassment against the women.” (EÖ/EÜ)