E/CN.4/1991/17 page 61 (c) The Special Rapporteur has also received information that numerous people suspected of being members of the Turkish Communist Party were detained and tortured at the Kahramanmaras Police Headquarters in early 1989. Two of those detained, Gazi Eke and Mustafa Deprem, have testified that they had been subjected to electric shocks, suspension and beatings. Gazi Eke testified that he had received beatings to the head and had since suffered from epilepsy. Another detainee, Oguz Yaman, was detained at Kahramanmaras and transferred to the Mersin Police Headquarters where he and his wife were both allegedly subjected to torture; (d) In addition to the aforementioned, it was reported that on 18 July 1989, Seyhmus Orhan of Yoncali was detained in the fields near Yoncali and was later allegedly killed under torture at the Command of the 118th Gendarmerie Regiment. It was further alleged that the authorities shot him after his death in order to claim that he was killed while trying to escape. 189. On 6 November 1990 the Government of Turkey provided the Special Rapporteur with detailed information concerning the aforementioned persons, including their date of detention, the charges against them and their physical condition following their alleged torture. The communication contained the following information: (a) Mazhar Kara was released on 28 September 1989 as a result of a decision by a court of appeal; (b) Mehmet Ozkan, Songul Ozkan, Bektas Ozkan, Ihsan Irmak and Fuat Akylirek were arrested on 16 February 1989. "Upon complaints, the Public Prosecutor of Istanbul initiated an investigation against the security officials concerned. He has concluded that allegations were unfounded and that further action was not needed. Medical reports which were duly prepared attest to the fact that the said persons had not been mistreated under detention"; (c) Gazi Eke, Mustafa Deprem and Oguz Yaman: "the said persons claimed before the court that they had been tortured in detention. On 16 September 1989 the Public Prosecutor of Kahramanmaras opened an investigation on the conduct of the officials who had interrogated these persons at Kahramanmaras Police Headquarters. The investigation was completed on 19 April 1989 with the decision that there were no grounds for a judicial proceeding. Medical reports certify that the plaintiffs had not been subjected to any kind of ill-treatment while in detention and under interrogation. The results of this investigation were challenged by the persons in question through an objection submitted to the Gaziantep Criminal Court. The case was re-examined by the said court which consequently reached the same conclusion on 16 August 1989. The persons in question made another application to the Public Prosecutor of Gaziantep. The said office duly looked into the allegations and, on 11 December 1989, decided that there was no basis for further action"; (d) Seyharuz Orhan was seriously wounded "in an exchange of fire between the security forces and terrorists on 18 July 1989 near the Yoncali village of Hakkari" ... "He later died in the Hakkari State Hospital. The autopsy report of the hospital shows that he did not die because of mistreatment. Nevertheless, the allegations have been referred to the competent authorities who are in the process of conducting the necessary investigation".