irregular migrants, who were still hanging on, to fall down. In light of the risk of ill-treatment, the CPT recommends that the Spanish authorities take the necessary steps to ensure that no foreign national is handed over to MAF officials. Further, these forces should not be allowed to enter Spanish territory to apprehend and forcibly return irregular migrants to Morocco, outside any legal framework. The Committee notes that no allegations of ill-treatment were made regarding members of the Moroccan Gendarmerie. In their response, the Spanish authorities provide details in relation to the incident of 15 October 2014 asserting that the irregular migrant in question simulated unconsciousness.  Further, they indicate that the MAF are, under special circumstances, allowed to enter Spanish territory in order to protect themselves from the flux of irregular migrants. Report and response published in April 2015 (CPT/Inf (2015) 19 and CPT/Inf (2015) 20) Report on the periodic visit to Turkey in June 2013 and response of the Turkish authorities (treatment of persons detained by law enforcement agencies and prison conditions) 56. As had been the case during the 2009 visit, the great majority of persons met by the CPT’s delegation stated that they had been treated in a correct manner whilst in police/gendarmerie custody. However, in the Diyarbakır and Şanlıurfa areas, the delegation received a number of allegations from detained persons (including juveniles) of recent physical ill-treatment by police officers. Most of these allegations concerned excessive use of force at the General Report of the CPT, 2015 ► Page 26 time of apprehension or slaps, punches or kicks during police questioning. In some cases, the medical examination of the persons concerned and/or the consultation of medical files by the delegation revealed injuries which were consistent with the allegations of ill-treatment made. The Committee recommends that all law enforcement officials in the Diyarbakır and Şanlıurfa areas be reminded, through a formal statement from the relevant authorities, that they must be respectful of the rights of persons in their custody and that the ill-treatment of such persons will be the subject of severe sanctions. Recommendations are also made regarding the conduct of investigations into allegations of ill-treatment by police/gendarmerie officers and on improving the implementation in practice of safeguards against ill-treatment, such as access to a lawyer and a doctor. 57. Particular attention was paid during the 2013 visit to the situation of persons deprived of their liberty in the context of public demonstrations which were ongoing at the time of the visit in different parts of the country (so-called “Gezi protests”); for that purpose, the CPT’s delegation interviewed many demonstrators who had been taken into police custody in Ankara and Istanbul. In both cities, many allegations were received from detained demonstrators that they had been subjected to excessive use of force at the time of apprehension (such as kicks, punches and blows with sticks or batons – including to the head or face – after having been brought under control). Further, several persons claimed that police officers had broken down the doors to the rooms in which they were hiding (in a hotel or on the premises of a political