Alleged victim(s)
Date of
arrest
Alleged
perpetrators
Charge
Description of treatment and/or injuries
Access to
a lawyer
Remziye Dinc
(17 years old),
female
Jan.-Feb.
1995
Village guard,
Sican Village,
Kozluk, Batman
Raped while threatened with firearm that
she would be revealed as PKK member.
Gave birth to child as a result, shown to be
child of the village guard.
Complaint made.
Village guard
acquitted on
ground that sex
was consensual.
High Court
returned case to
Court of First
Instance on
grounds that it was
statutory rape.
Case pending.
26.
Okan Kablan (now
18 years old)
7 Feb. 1996
Istanbul General
Security
Directorate
Political
Beatings; Palestinian hanging; subjection to
pressurized cold water; blindfolding; obliged
to sign confession.
Not
known
27.
Deyrim Öktem,
female
5 Feb. 1996
Istanbul General
Security
Directorate
Political
6-17 Feb. 1996: forced to strip, doused in
cold water and placed in front of a fan with
the window open; straight suspension;
threats to make her miscarry (she was
1½ months pregnant at the time);
squeezing of breasts; hitting breasts and
rape with plastic stick; falaka; beating on
stomach and back for 1½ hours, causing
subsequent miscarriage.
No
Held on remand
for 22 months.
Released in
Nov. 1997. Trial
still pending. Claim
filed against police.
Results unknown.
E/CN.4/1999/61/Add.1
page 39
25.
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