Turkey Purge

Police officers threatened to rape a group of detainees as well as their wives after the latter group denied accusations that they were members of the Gülen movement, a lawyer told Human Rights Watch (HRW). “Police officers had accused them of being members of the Gülen movement. If they denied the accusations, the client had

“Police officer banged my client’s head on the floor, causing marks and bruises on his head. When I complaint about ill-treatment, the police said it would be very easy for him to have me arrested for being a member of the Gülen movement as well,” a lawyer told Human Rights Watch. In a 43-page report,

A high-ranking officer, suspected of involvement in the failed coup, told a judge that he was severely beaten while under custody at the Ankara police headquarters and showed him a large bruise on his body. Yet, court transcript of his testimony left out details of the ill- treatment, a lawyer told Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The officer, detained on accusation of involvement in the attempted coup, was ill-treated during interrogation but police officers denied allegations of torture claiming that the detainee had been injured during the night of the coup. In a 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture,” published on Tuesday, HRW documented 13

An Istanbul-based lawyer told Human Rights Watch (HRW) that police officers tortured her two clients by squeezing their testicles and forcing to undress them, another indication of reemergence of most cruel torture methods in Turkish prisons. In a 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture,” published on Tuesday, HRW documented

Forced to stay under stress-position for longs hours, one of the Turkey’s post-coup detainees suffered from frozen shoulder, a forensic specialist told Human Rights Watch (HRW). In a 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture,” published on Tuesday, HRW documented 13 specific abuse incidents concerning Turkey’s post-coup detainees. The alleged