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maltreatment
Prisoners put in punishment cell allegedly for 'writing book in Kurdish'
An HDP deputy has brought two separate cases of rights violations into the parliamentary agenda.
6 April 2023
Constitutional Court: State is obliged to protect prisoners
After an individual application by a prisoner who claimed to be subjected to ill-treatment, the high court ruled that he should be paid compensation and his allegations should be investigated.
20 December 2022
Police chief investigated after claims of maltreatment of demonstrators, journalists
Videos showed the police chief battering and "harassing" demonstrators and journalists on multiple occasions.
29 August 2022
Footage shows prisoner beaten, forced to undress in southern Turkey
Five prison guards have been put on trial for torture, and two are facing other charges. The prisoner's family says they were offered money to drop the case.
4 July 2022
Mother of prisoner who died after torture in İstanbul prison: They hid my child from me
A few days before his death, Ferhan Yılmaz had invited her for a free visit, says his mother.
18 April 2022
Ill prisoner not referred to hospital as he rejects ‘mouth search’
Chronically ill prisoner Aydın cannot be treated as he does not accept his mouth being searched as a form of body cavity search while being taken to the hospital. His mother has filed a complaint about this practice by also citing the pandemic.
15 February 2022
Ayça Söylemez
ANKARA BAR ASSOCIATION
With their report on torture censored, 6 members of ‘Human Rights Center’ resign
The administration of Ankara Bar has not shared its Human Rights Center’s report on torture allegations concerning Ankara Security Directorate. Six members of the center have resigned. Lawyers say similar incidents have been going on for some time.
9 February 2022
Prosecutors dismiss investigation into 'torture' claims of prisoner who died suspiciously
Shortly after she claimed to be systematically tortured and sexually assaulted, Garibe Gezer lost her life. The cause of her death was announced as "suicide."
4 January 2022
Onur Yaser Can case: New investigation against 5 police officers
In the trial over the death of 28-year-old Onur Yaser Can, who committed suicide after being tortured in detention, the İstanbul Regional Administrative Court has requested an investigation against five police officers.
22 July 2021
İHD finds 102 cases of rights violations in four months in 10 prisons
Prisoners and attorneys have stated several different types of rights violations, including maltreatment, violence and discrimination.
28 June 2021
Turkey’s Constitutional Court says strip search is ‘ill treatment’
The Constitutional Court has concluded that the strip search of a woman at the tea room of a police station violated the prohibition of ill treatment on procedural grounds.
5 January 2021
Non-pecuniary damages for ill treatment in prison
The Constitutional Court has concluded that the prohibition of ill treatment was violated when a convict was kept in a cold room for five days with his hands and feet tied behind his back in what is known as the “hogtie” method, a notorious form of torture.
19 November 2020
Ayça Söylemez
HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
Pandemic in Turkey: ‘Social distance disappears in prison’
According to a recent statement by the Diyarbakır Branch of Human Rights Association (İHD), nearly five wardens enter the wards for search in Elazığ Campus Prison, not paying attention to social distance amid COVID-19 pandemic.
29 October 2020
UNION FOR DEMOCRACY
'What was extraordinary was not that people were dropped from a helicopter'
What was done to Osman Şiban and Servet Turgut was aimed at intimidating the people of the region, the DİB has stated.
23 October 2020
Person with autism tied up in care home's garden
A person with autism was left in the garden of a rehabilitation center with his hands tied up behind his back; the scene was captured by the parents of other children. An investigation has been launched against the responsible person.
16 October 2020
Ayça Söylemez
Allegations of torture in detention in Urfa
HDP deputy Gülüm has submitted a parliamentary question about the new allegations of torture in the Kurdish-majority province.
8 September 2020
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
‘Prohibition of maltreatment is violated by gendarmerie’s beating of arrested student’
Transferred to İstanbul so that he could take his exams at university, arrested student Can was battered by gendarmerie. He took the ensuing impunity to the Constitutional Court, which has concluded that prohibition of maltreatment was violated.
20 August 2020
Ayça Söylemez
JUSTICE MINISTRY
‘396 prisoners filed complaints about torture in 7 months’
Responding to a Parliamentary question by CHP MP Tanrıkulu, Turkey’s Justice Ministry has said, “Fundamental changes have been made in our legislation so that arrestees and convicts will not be subjected to any incidents of maltreatment.”
18 June 2020
Ruken Tuncel
‘Growing Number of Torture Incidents’ on Parliamentary Agenda
HDP MP Danış Beştaş has submitted a Parliamentary inquiry into the increasing number of torture incidents, stating that “in contrast to the government’s ‘zero tolerance to torture’ statements, torture has become widespread and, almost, legitimate.”
11 July 2019
JUNE 26 DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE TORTURED
Joint Statement by Rights Organizations: Investigate Allegations of Torture
The Human Rights Association (İHD) and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) have made a joint statement for the press on June 26 Day of Solidarity with the Tortured and called the authorities to investigate the allegations of torture.
26 June 2019
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FREEDOM FOR CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR AYDEMİR
Torture Allegations by Conscientious Objector Aydemir
Conscientious objector Enver Aydemir claims that he was exposed to torture and maltreatment in prison for refusing to wear military clothes. Aydemir started a hunger strike to express his protest. His wife, his father and lawyer Yılmaz filed a criminal complaint.
30 December 2009
Bawer Çakır
Solidarity with Torture Victims
Rights Activists Call for Torture to Be Punished
Rights activists have warned that there has been a rise in cases of maltreatment and torture since 2005. Perpetrators mostly remain unpunished.
26 June 2009
Erhan Üstündağ
452 Claims of Torture in 2007, Says TIHV
The Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TIHV) has published its annual report, in which it says that 452 people applied to its centres with claims of torture and maltreatment.
20 February 2008
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