Alleged victim(s)
15.
Fatma Tokmak,
female, and her
son Azat Tokmak
(2½ years old)
Date of
arrest
9 Dec. 1997
to
20 Dec. 1997
Alleged
perpetrators
Charge
Arrest by Istanbul
Anti-terror police,
detention at
Aksaray
Anti-terror
Department
Political
Description of treatment and/or injuries
Fatma Tokmak: left naked; suspension;
squeezing breasts; threats of rape; forced to
watch ill-treatment of son; forced to assume
sexual position with son.
Access to
a lawyer
Other
Not
known
Complaint made.
Case initially
dropped, but High
Court decided to
expand the
investigation on
appeal.
Azat Tokmak: electric shocks to the back;
putting out cigarettes on his body. Medical
certificate reported burns on his left back
consistent with such treatment, and
psychological imbalance.
Ozgur Acipinar
3 Nov. 1998
Plainclothes
police belonging
to Ankara
General Security
Directorate,
Anti-terror Branch
Political
Abducted in a car and taken to a remote
field. Beaten over an 8-hour period.
Threats.
No
Complaint made.
Result unknown.
17.
Orhan Demir,
Nuriye Demir,
Ismail Demir
15 Oct. 1998
Gazi police
station, Ankara
Unknown
Beatings. Medical certificates reported:
Nuriye Demir: soft tissue bruise on front
right arm.
Orhan Demir: Soft tissue trauma to right
wrist; no work for 3 days.
No
Complaint made.
Result unknown.
18.
Deniz Celik
(14 years old)
29 Jul. 1998
Batikent police
station, Ankara
Theft of car
stereo
Beating; left to stand naked while doused in
cold water. Medical certificate reported
bruising and oedema to the left eye and
bruises behind the left ear and on the back.
No
Complaint made.
Result unknown.
19.
37 persons
present at
Saturday Mothers
demonstration
15 Aug. 1998
Beyoglu police
station
Political
Left in locked bus for over half an hour in
the sun; sprayed with pepper gas during
arrest; kept 12 or 13 in windowless
cells 6m2; withholding of toilet facilities.
Yes
Complaint made.
Result unknown.
E/CN.4/1999/61/Add.1
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