CAT/C/54/D/544/2013 4.10 In the light of the foregoing, the State party submits that there are no substantial grounds for believing that the complainant faces a real and personal risk of torture upon return to Turkey. Therefore, his deportation would not constitute a violation of article 3 of the Convention. Additional submission by the complainant 5.1 On 24 October 2013, the complainant submitted information addit ional to his initial complaint. He attaches the testimony of one Seyid Ahmet Öcalan, dated 4 April 2013, who states that the complainant held important political positions, such as Halfeti district President of HADEP, DEHAP and DTP. According to the same testimony, the complainant was a member of the DEHAP party leadership. Because of his position, he had received numerous threats from the Turkish security forces. A second testimony submitted by the former Deputy Co -chairperson of the DTP, Mustafa Sarikaya, and dated 12 April 2013, attests to the fact that the complainant was imprisoned in the 1980s and suffered severe torture and inhuman treatment in Diyarbakir prison on account of his political activities. According to the same testimony, the complainant is still wanted by the police. The complainant attaches a third testimony, dated 26 August 2013 and signed by the Chairperson of Halfeti district BDP, which attests to the fact that the complainant was a founding member of the DEHAP and was exposed to harassment and psychological violence after his release from prison. 5.2 The complainant also attaches the testimony of a Swiss national, J.S., who lived in the Kurdish part of Turkey between 2002 and 2008 and set up a shelter for battered women in Mersin. J.S. met a number of Kurdish leaders in Mersin, as well as the complainant in Halfeti, who was introduced to him as a political friend and HADEP contact. With the complainant, J.S. visited members of the Öcalan family (the family of the PKK leader). 19 In Mersin, J.S. said that he had been in touch with members of the Grey Wolves, 20 who had openly made death threats against persons such as the complainant. The testimony ends by affirming that the complainant would be in grave danger if he should return to Turkey. 5.3 The complainant also attaches two medical certificates. 21 The first medical report, drawn up by a doctor at the consultation centre for victims of war and torture of Geneva University Hospitals, indicates that the complainant “exhibits a se t of somatic symptoms and psychological problems constituting a clinical pattern often found in victims of systematic violence”; that the muscular injuries identified in the complainant “are consistent with the consequences of abuse of the kind described [ by the complainant]”; and that he shows psychological symptoms that meet the description of severe post-traumatic stress disorder. The report concludes that, in view of the severity of the complainant’s psychological problems, the medical treatment which has been initiated (which includes psychological support and regular somatic check-ups) should not be interrupted. Any interruption of the treatment, in the event of his forced return to Turkey, would be dangerous for the health of the complainant, who was judged by the signatories of the report to be “incapable of coping with the pressures of such a return”. __________________ 19 20 21 8/12 J.S. attaches a photograph showing him with members of the Öcalan family and the complainant. An anti-Kurdish Turkish nationalist movement. Dated 26 April and 17 July 2013, respectively, and which supplement the report already submitted on the complainant’s psychological state (see paragraph 3.2 above). GE. 15-11119