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714. The Special Rapporteur also communicated information according to which
the following persons, serving sentences at the Bayrampas
¸a prison in Istanbul,
had repeatedly been denied or been provided insufficient medical treatment,
despite suffering serious health problems: Sadrettin Aydinlik, Cemil Tiryaki,
Hüseyin Çelik, Vedat Aydemir, Celal Turpçu, Mehmet Özne, Hasan Kenar,
Musa Gündog
˘du, Hamdullah S
¸engüler, Fesih Karatas
¸, Muzaffer Bingöl,
Ali Kilavuz, Halil Uçar, Güven Özata, Tuncay Koçak, Mahfuz S
¸ahin,
Sunullah Altan, Hüseyin Temur, Faruk Kaplan, Lokman Yildirim, Menaf Yilmaz,
Birgül Çeçen (female), Nuran Ekingen (female), Rabia Tekas
¸ (female),
Songül Seçkin (female).
715. The Government replied that Hasan Kenar and Hamdullah S
¸engüler had been
offered but had refused medical treatment. Sunullah Altan had not requested
medical treatment. No mention was made in the reply of Cemil Tiryaki,
Güven Özata, Hüseyin Termur, Faruk Kaplan, Lokman Yildirim. The remainder of
the above-named persons had received medical treatment and a description of
the treatment rendered was provided.
716. By the same letter, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government of
new information he had received with respect to the urgent appeal he had
sent on 30 September 1994 on behalf of Murat Demir, Ahmet Duzgun Yuksel,
Fatma Yaman and Gulcan Yavuz. On 24 November 1994 the Government had replied
that none of these persons were subjected to torture or ill-treatment.
According to the new information, during his detention Murat Demir was
stripped naked, his testicles were squeezed and he was denied hospital
treatment, despite a recommendation by officials of the Forensic Medical
Institute that he be provided such treatment. In addition, Fatma Yaman and
Gulcan Yavuz were allegedly suspended by the wrists for prolonged periods.
The arrests reportedly took place one hour before Murat Demir was to have met
with an official from the French Embassy to submit a petition on behalf of a
client from the illegal organization Devrimci Sol. Murat Demir had been
previously arrested and allegedly tortured in 1991, reportedly in connection
with his representation of alleged members of Devrimci Sol.
Information received from the Government on cases included in previous reports
717. On 5 May 1995 the Government sent a reply to a number of cases
transmitted by the Special Rapporteur in his letters of 29 October 1993
and 15 September 1994.
718. Nazli Top had allegedly been tortured and sexually abused while she was
pregnant by members of the Istanbul police in April 1992. On 13 January 1994
the Government had informed the Special Rapporteur that seven police officers
from the Bahcelievler police precinct had been charged with her torture. In
a reply dated 5 May 1995, the Government indicated that the officers were
acquitted by the Istanbul high criminal court No. 3 on 12 May 1994 and that
this decision was under review at the high court of appeals.
719. Ismail Yilmaz had reportedly been arrested on 27 June 1992 and allegedly
tortured in Istanbul. The Government replied that a public case had been
commenced at the Istanbul high criminal court No. 7 against members of the
security forces charged with his torture.
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