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KurdistanObserver.com
Turkey: 51 People Killed By Security Guards
In 11 Months
ADANA Dec 9 (DIHA) - Bar of Adana, Head
of Commission of Human Rights Association, Lawyer Mustafa Cinkılıç, said that in
the first 9 months of 2005, 4 people died under custody and at least 300 were
exposed to torture and abuse. Cinkılıç said that the number of people killed by
policemen, soldier, ranger and private security guards in 11 months was 51.
Bar of Adana, Commission of Human Rights Association, made an explanation at the
bar meeting room on account of the 10th December anniversary of the approval of
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Bar of Adana, Head of Commission of Human
Rights Association, Lawyer Mustafa Cinkılıç, who drew attention to the fact that
as many people died as if there had been a III. World War after the second,
spoke 'we see that the number of casualties in regional and dual and civil wars
and fights is higher than there were in II. World War.
When such developments happen in the 57th anniversary of the Universal
Declaration, there are different violations of human rights in our country.
Cinkılıç, who said that opinion is still a crime in our country, emphasized that
Turkey should be saved out of the image of a country where people are exposed to
torture on the street and in custody centers by public servants. Cinkılıç, who
said that great political care must be taken to deter torture, spoke 'Our
country must be place where people in prisons do not hang themselves and are not
killed, where people do not resort to hunger strikes, where people are not put
alone in a cell and isolated.'
The Balance Sheet of Ignorance
Cinkılıç, who mentioned the events in Şemdinli, demanded the responsible to be
found out and chastised and the event be unravelled. Cinkılıç, who announced the
data by TİHV (Turkey Human Rights Association), said that in the first 9 months
of 2005, 4 people died under custody and at least 300 were exposed to torture
and abuse. Cinkılıç also said that the numbers in question do not include the
ones beaten in meetings and demonstrations and that in 11 months 18 people, 8 of
whom were children, died and 45 were wounded by dispossessed explosives.
He drew attention to the explanation that the Logistics Command of Turkish Land
Forces made on 4th June that 'between 1984-1998, 18 475 security forces and 12
481 civil died'. The other data he gave was: 'in the first 11 months, at least
86 soldiers, 2 policemen, 8 village rangers, 163 organisation militant, 2 civil
and 6 state servant died. In the first 11 months of the year, at least 51 people
were killed by the police, soldiers, village rangers, and private security
members and hundreds of people were wounded.'
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