Human rights organizations: Turkey has become a home to torture and ill-treatment
Human rights organizations have highlighted torture and abuse in Turkish prisons and detention centers.
A joint human rights statement by the Human Rights Association (IHD) and the Turkish Human Rights Foundation on the occasion of the “Day of Solidarity with the Torturers” said: Turkey is a country where torture and ill-treatment are practiced systematically by the ruling regime, despite the fact that Ankara accepted the Convention against Torture in 1988, Turkish newspaper Zaman reported.
“As a result of the current political power, which has made all of the country’s issues, from economy to public health, a security problem, the pressure-and-control management method is increasing by the day, and almost all of Turkey has become a place of torture”, the statement said.
The statement added: The phrase “zero tolerance for torture” in Turkey is a thing of the past; As a result of the growing authoritarianism of political power and the violation of procedural guarantees for reasons of avoidance of control over the laws, regulations, customs, arbitrariness and willful neglect that pervade various levels of state power.
The statement stressed that torture and ill-treatment are illegal and uncontrolled, not punishable and ignored, and even encouraged by the political authority, far exceeding the power of law enforcement to use force as defined by global and state law.
The statement continued: “Violence has become commonplace, it has become part of the daily lives of women, workers, life defenders, members and managers of political parties, members and managers of professional organizations, and human rights activists who want to use their freedom of peaceful assembly and demonstration, which is the foundation of democratic society worldwide and guaranteed by the constitution, and who have been subject to this brutal violence by law enforcement”.
