Over 12 thousand people arrested in 2011
Over 12 thousand people arrested in 2011
The 2011 report about human rights violations has been released by the Human Rights Association (IHD). The report reveals worrisome figures of human rights violations in Turkey in 2011: 12,685 detentions, 2,922 arrests, 3,252 cases of torture and ill-treatment.
“A country which claims to be democratic doesn’t allow for so many violations. The political power is building a police state. There is a concrete deterioration that has remarkably increased in comparison to earlier years”, said IHD General Chairperson Öztürk Türkdoðan.
Releasing the report with the title “Institutionalizing Police State, Evaluations on 2011 report about human rights violations”, Türkdoðan pointed out that “deaths in prison and the problem of F-Type Prison continued in 2011 as well since the state has preserved its insensitivity on the matter”.
Türkdoðan underlined that the conflict environment in the Kurdish issue has reached a critical point and added; “Deaths remarkably increased last year because of the ending of negotiations. Sides should urgently conduct negotiations and a nonconflict environment should be created to enable peace.”
IHD Chairperson also called attention to the issue of mass graves, noting that 3,248 people are buried in 253 mass graves denounced by the people who applied to IHD in 2011.
Torture and ill-treatment expanded and increased in 2011 as well, underlined Türkdoðan and pointed out to the same situation in respect of freedom of thought and expression.
“2,309 children are currently held in prison, and among them 2,100 are prisoners”, underlined Türkdoðan and evaluated the Roboski bombing as an extrajudicial execution.
The statistical figures of violations of rights experienced in Turkey for the year 2011 are;
* 57 cases of death and 130 injury caused by police forces as a result of violation of the right to use arm
* Three people were killed and 48 wounded by village guards
*Sixteen people were killed and 12 wounded in border regions
* 36 people died and 11 were wounded in prison
*46 people, included two children, were killed and 121 wounded in unidentified murders,
*31 people died and 96 were wounded because of formal defects and negligence
*43 people died and three were wounded in cases of police and soldier suicide
PEOPLE SUBJECTED TO VIOLENCE
* Political party, union and organization executive: 65 wounded
*Journalist: 2 wounded
*Teacher, lecturer: 4 wounded
* Student: 1 dead, 43 wounded
*Local administrator: 1 wounded
* Worker: 3 dead, 34 wounded
* Other: 35 dead, 76 wounded
ARMED CLASHES
* Soldier, police officer and temporary village guard: 154 dead, 285 wounded
*Armed militant: 184 dead, 19 wounded
* 13 people, included 5 children, died and 63 people, included 25 children, were wounded as a result of mine and abandoned bomb explosion
SUSPECTED DEATHS
* Including two children, 55 people lost their life
HONOR KILLINGS
* 11 people [1 child, 9 women and 1 man] died, 5 people [1 child, 4 women] were wounded
VILATIONS OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO LIVE
*Women’s suicides: 56 dead, 20 injured
*Women exposed to domestic violence: 117 dead, 117 injured
* Violence, sexual abuse and rape of women in public area: 2 dead, 176 injured
* Women forced to prostitution: 9
VILATIONS OF CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO LIVE
*Children suicides: 30 dead, 17 wounded
* Children exposed to indoors and outdoors violence: 158
* Violence, sexual abuse and rape of children in public area: 33 dead, 2 injured
* Children forced to prostitution: 14
TORTURE, ILL-TREATMENT, HUMILATING, INSULTING TREATMENT and PUNISHMENT
* Cases of torture and ill-treatment under custody: 310
* Cases of torture and ill-treatment outside detention places: 517
* Cases of torture and ill-treatment by village guards: 15
* Cases of torture and ill-treatment in prison: 1 dead, 724 wounded
* Cases of threats by police forces: 102
* Cases of being beaten and wounded by police intervention in mass demonstrations: 1425
* Cases of exposure to torture and ill-treatment by special security forces: 58
* Cases of violence at schools: 119
VIOLATIONS OF PERSONAL SECURITY AND FREEDOM
* 12,685 people taken into custody
* 2,922 people jailed
*4,400 refugees and immigrants taken into custody
* 14 refugees and immigrants lost their lives
“A country which claims to be democratic doesn’t allow for so many violations. The political power is building a police state. There is a concrete deterioration that has remarkably increased in comparison to earlier years”, said IHD General Chairperson Öztürk Türkdoðan.
Releasing the report with the title “Institutionalizing Police State, Evaluations on 2011 report about human rights violations”, Türkdoðan pointed out that “deaths in prison and the problem of F-Type Prison continued in 2011 as well since the state has preserved its insensitivity on the matter”.
Türkdoðan underlined that the conflict environment in the Kurdish issue has reached a critical point and added; “Deaths remarkably increased last year because of the ending of negotiations. Sides should urgently conduct negotiations and a nonconflict environment should be created to enable peace.”
IHD Chairperson also called attention to the issue of mass graves, noting that 3,248 people are buried in 253 mass graves denounced by the people who applied to IHD in 2011.
Torture and ill-treatment expanded and increased in 2011 as well, underlined Türkdoðan and pointed out to the same situation in respect of freedom of thought and expression.
“2,309 children are currently held in prison, and among them 2,100 are prisoners”, underlined Türkdoðan and evaluated the Roboski bombing as an extrajudicial execution.
The statistical figures of violations of rights experienced in Turkey for the year 2011 are;
* 57 cases of death and 130 injury caused by police forces as a result of violation of the right to use arm
* Three people were killed and 48 wounded by village guards
*Sixteen people were killed and 12 wounded in border regions
* 36 people died and 11 were wounded in prison
*46 people, included two children, were killed and 121 wounded in unidentified murders,
*31 people died and 96 were wounded because of formal defects and negligence
*43 people died and three were wounded in cases of police and soldier suicide
PEOPLE SUBJECTED TO VIOLENCE
* Political party, union and organization executive: 65 wounded
*Journalist: 2 wounded
*Teacher, lecturer: 4 wounded
* Student: 1 dead, 43 wounded
*Local administrator: 1 wounded
* Worker: 3 dead, 34 wounded
* Other: 35 dead, 76 wounded
ARMED CLASHES
* Soldier, police officer and temporary village guard: 154 dead, 285 wounded
*Armed militant: 184 dead, 19 wounded
* 13 people, included 5 children, died and 63 people, included 25 children, were wounded as a result of mine and abandoned bomb explosion
SUSPECTED DEATHS
* Including two children, 55 people lost their life
HONOR KILLINGS
* 11 people [1 child, 9 women and 1 man] died, 5 people [1 child, 4 women] were wounded
VILATIONS OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO LIVE
*Women’s suicides: 56 dead, 20 injured
*Women exposed to domestic violence: 117 dead, 117 injured
* Violence, sexual abuse and rape of women in public area: 2 dead, 176 injured
* Women forced to prostitution: 9
VILATIONS OF CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO LIVE
*Children suicides: 30 dead, 17 wounded
* Children exposed to indoors and outdoors violence: 158
* Violence, sexual abuse and rape of children in public area: 33 dead, 2 injured
* Children forced to prostitution: 14
TORTURE, ILL-TREATMENT, HUMILATING, INSULTING TREATMENT and PUNISHMENT
* Cases of torture and ill-treatment under custody: 310
* Cases of torture and ill-treatment outside detention places: 517
* Cases of torture and ill-treatment by village guards: 15
* Cases of torture and ill-treatment in prison: 1 dead, 724 wounded
* Cases of threats by police forces: 102
* Cases of being beaten and wounded by police intervention in mass demonstrations: 1425
* Cases of exposure to torture and ill-treatment by special security forces: 58
* Cases of violence at schools: 119
VIOLATIONS OF PERSONAL SECURITY AND FREEDOM
* 12,685 people taken into custody
* 2,922 people jailed
*4,400 refugees and immigrants taken into custody
* 14 refugees and immigrants lost their lives
