E/CN.4/1994/31 page 123 595. Behçet Ekinci was arrested at his home in Diyarbakir on 21 September 1993, by officers from the anti-terror branch of Diyarbakir police headquarters. Police officers reportedly occupied the house during the following three days and detained everyone who visited. The following night, around the same time, the police reportedly brought Behçet Ekinci back to his home, covered in blood and bruises. They searched the house for explosives but found nothing and took Behçet Ekinci back to police headquarters. (4 October 1993) 596. Nilufer Koç, a Kurdish interpreter of Turkish origin, resident in Germany: on 25 September 1993 she reportedly travelled to Turkey with four colleagues from an information service in Bremen to act as interpreter for them while they carried out research in the south-eastern provinces of Turkey. On 29 September they were reportedly arrested by security forces in Uludere, Sirnak province, and kept overnight in the house of a village guard. The following day they were reportedly escorted back to Sirnak in a military convoy and held, first by the police and then by the gendarmerie. At this point Nilufer Koç was separated from her colleagues, who were subsequently released. According to the reports, Nilufer Koç was being held in the gendarmerie headquarters in Sirnak. (8 October 1993) 597. Kerim Yilmaz, Nurettin Aslan, Önder Dilek and Ahmet Günes were reportedly taken from their homes in Elazig on 2 October 1993 by police and members of the "special team" (heavily armed police used in anti-insurgent operations). They were said to be held at the Binsekizyüz Evler police interrogation unit in Elazig. Family members were reportedly refused access to the detainees. (14 October 1993) 598. On 26 November 1993 the Government replied that Ahmet Günes and Kerim Yilmaz had been arrested on 28 September and 2 October 1993 respectively under accusation of collaboration with PKK. The judicial authorities had ordered their release on 6 October 1993. While in custody, they had neither been subjected to ill-treatment nor prevented from having contacts with their families. 599. Mehmet Sirin Ögünç, Hakim Ögünç, Zeki Ögünç, Hüseyin Ugurlu, Sami Duygu and Hüsamettin Duygu: according to the reports, on 2 October 1993 gendarmes from the Gökyazi security post raided a district of Altinova, province of Mus, where a wounded PKK guerrilla was thought to be sheltered. An exchange of fire occurred in which the wounded guerrilla and a gendarme were killed. The security forces left the area but returned at about 3 a.m. on 3 October and burned a number of houses. The male population was assembled on vacant land below the town and addressed by a gendarmerie officer who abused them before taking away the persons mentioned above. (14 October 1993) 600. It was reported that in the early hours of 20 October 1993, officers of the anti-terror branch of the Sanliurfa police detained Mehmet Caki, a board member of Democracy Party (DEP) in Viransehir, his wife Saime and their five-month-old baby, together with Mehmet Delen, a visitor to their house in Viransehir. The following day, Mehmet Delen and Saime Caki were released and expressed concern that Mehmet Caki was being tortured, since Saime Caki had heard her husband’s screaming. Two other former detainees reported seeing