Kurdish Human Rights Project
Torture and Extra-Judicial Killing, a Case Report
Salman v Turkey
İlhan v Turkey
Compte d'auteur
The cases of Salman v Turkey and ilhan v Turkey highlight the prevalence of torture and the serious threats to the right to life that are sadly a phenomenon in Southeast Turkey.
Agit Salman was arrested by police in the early hours of 28 April 1992 and taken to the Adana Security Directorate, a place where he claimed to have been subjected to torture some two months previously. Twenty-four hours after his arrest, he was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. Abdullatif ilhan was apprehended by soldiers during a raid on his village, Aytepe, early in the morning of 26 December 1992. Despite being badly bruised and only half conscious after being beaten by soldiers, he was taken to the gendarme station at Mardin where he was tortured. Although his condition deteriorated, he was denied medical treatment and was not released until the following evening, after which he was rushed to hospital and placed in intensive care. A year later, he was still suffering from a 60% loss of function on his left side; nine years later, he is still disabled.
In both cases, the former European Commission of Human Rights had ...
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