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Council of Europe
Anti-Torture Committee publishes report on Turkey
Strasbourg, 25.06.2003 - The Council of Europe’s Committee for the
prevention of torture (CPT) has published today the report on its visits to
Turkey in March and September 2002, together with the response of the Turkish
Government. These documents have been made public with the agreement of the
Turkish authorities.
One of the main purposes of the visits in March and September 2002 was to
examine the implementation in practice of recent legal reforms concerning
custody by law enforcement agencies ; those reforms relate to matters such as
access to a lawyer and notification of custody. The conditions under which
medical examinations of persons in police custody take place were also reviewed
in depth by the CPT's delegation. Further, it explored recent cases of resort to
the provisions of Article 3 (c) of Legislative Decree No. 430, under which
prisoners who have to be questioned as part of the investigation of offences
giving rise to the declaration of a state of emergency may be returned to the
custody of law enforcement agencies. These different issues were examined in
particular in the province of Diyarbakır.
The CPT’s delegation also reviewed the development of communal
activities for inmates in the new F-type prisons.
For this purpose, a visit was carried out to Sincan F-type Prison
(Ankara) .
The report
and the response are available on the
CPT's website :http://www.cpt.coe.int
