Search results

use of torture in Turkey goes back to the Ottoman Empire. After the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, torture of civilians by the Turkish Armed Forces...

life, torture, freedom of expression as well as freedoms of religion, assembly and association. In 2009, the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey released...

of torture in Turkey. There have been a number of rulings against Turkey in the European Court of Human Rights resulting from deaths in custody in the...

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation...

practice of torture by security forces in Turkey. The victims of torture interviewed by Helsinki Watch had revealed the systematic practice of torture against...

White torture, often referred to as white room torture, is a type of psychological torture technique aimed at complete sensory deprivation and isolation...

against or in the vagina or anus." In 1996, the European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty of torture for its use of reverse hanging. Turkey has been...

Internet and in the media. After the changes to the 1982 Constitution of Turkey in September 2010 hundreds of people who claim they were tortured at Diyarbakır...

Ankara Bar Association (ABA) reported that some former Turkish diplomats were tortured in custody in May 2019. On May 20, 2019, Ankara police launched an...

Organization JİTEM Police brutality in Turkey, including Torture in Turkey Human rights in Turkey Crime in Turkey Prisons in Turkey JÖAK Jandarma Özel Harekat Polis...

Prison (Turkish: Bayrampaşa Cezaevi) is a former prison in the Bayrampaşa district of Istanbul Province in Turkey. It was established in 1968 in an area...

prohibited by international law and is illegal in most countries. However, it is still used by many governments. Torture is widely practiced worldwide: Amnesty...

Interrogational torture is the use of torture to obtain information in interrogation, as opposed to the use of torture to extract a forced confession,...

liberal Murat Belge, says that he was tortured there by Veli Küçük, who later founded JITEM and Hezbollah (Turkey) to counter the Kurdistan Workers' Party...

non-state actors aligned with Turkey, including rebel groups in Syria. These war crimes have included massacres, torture, terrorism, deportation or forced...

the Turkish military over the course of three operations in the Dersim Province (renamed Tunceli) against Kurdish Alevi rebels and civilians in 1937...

Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (commonly known as the United Nations Convention Against Torture (UNCAT))...

judgement. In 2018, by six votes to one, the Court declined. In Aksoy v. Turkey (1997) the Court found Turkey guilty of torture in 1996 in the case of...

members should be of Turkish origin to avoid harm to the nation. The defendants were tortured before the trials began. Torture included hitting, foot...

of Turkey (abbr. HRFT; Turkish: Türkiye İnsan Hakları Vakfı, TİHV) is headquartered in Ankara. The organization is committed to treating torture survivors...