Turkey Human Rights Report 1994

Contents

Preface / 7
As for foreword / 9

Sample Cases of Human Rights Abuses
Introduction / 19
The Kurdish problem / 35
The Newroz festival / 37
Local elections / 41
Clashes, operations and attacks / 50
Attacks against settlements / 61
Those who migrated / 74
Attacks against civilians / 80
Executions by organizations / 95
Education and teachers / 100
Health problems and health personnel / 104
Village guards / 106
Other developments / 108

Murders by unknown assailants / 115
Sample cases of murders by unknown assailants / 121
Those killed in murders by unknown assailants / 130

Extra-judicial executions / 139
Deaths in house and workshop raids / 144
Fire opened on demonstrating groups / 147
Deaths in fire opened because of disobeying stop warnings, etc / 147
Deaths in the explosions of mines and unclaimed bombs / 161

Capital punishment / 165

Torture / 175
CMUK / 177
Trials and investigations / 179
Deaths in detention and prisons / 187
Disappearances / 197
Determined torture cases / 207
Prisons / 229

Freedom of thought, press and belief / 237
Those who wore killed or disappeared / 247
Attacks against the press / 253
Prisoners of thought / 278
Sentences given, and those prosecuted / 300
Confiscated and closed publications / 309
Compulsory military service / 313
Kurdish / 317
Freedom of religion and religious pressure / 318

Freedom of organization / 321
Pressure on the IHD / 321
Prosecution of the leaders of the IHD and HRFT / 333
Closed associations, barred activities / 337
Pressure on political parties / 342
Labour issues and trade unions / 356

Sivas incidents / 360

Balance sheet of 1994 / 363

Reply to the periodical Aydinhk / 365