Torture of Diplomats

2019 yılında Ankara Emniyeti'nde yaşanan işkencenin tanığı ve eski Dışişleri Bakanlığı çalışanları konuştu. Arkadaşlarına yönelik işkenceleri anlatan eski diplomatlar Dışişleri Bakanlığı'nda yaşanan kadrolaşma ve liyakatsizliği de değindi.

Report on criminal liabilities with regard to torture incident took place in Ankara Police Headquarters between 20 and 31 May 2019

Late last month, four other Turkish foreign ministry staff claimed that they too were arbitrarily detained and mistreated, according to the Ankara Lawyers’ Bar Association.

Officials from the Turkish Foreign Ministry urged the police to deny documented torture claims of former diplomats during their unlawful detention in Ankara, a recent briefing at the Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Commission has revealed.

Die Dinge kippten vom Lächerlichen ins Bösartige, als ein Mitglied der Opposition, Ömer Faruk Gergerlioglu, am 26. Mai via Twitter bekanntgab, mehr als 100 Diplomaten seien in Polizeigewahrsam systematisch gefoltert worden und sexuellen Übergriffen ausgesetzt gewesen.

Evidence is piling up that many of the dozens of former Turkish diplomats recently rounded up and jailed were tortured, and the timing of the crackdown has raised speculation that the government is attempting to intimidate purged officials.

A leading Turkish legal organisation has said that former diplomats arrested in a coup-related sweep are being tortured in prison.

Then, on Monday of last week, out of the blue, authorities ordered the arrest of 249 of the purged diplomats. More than 100 of them were detained in Ankara provincial police headquarters. Many analysts claimed that it was a message to former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who served as foreign minister between 2009 and 2014. Most of the purged diplomats had entered the ministry during his time.

CHP İstanbul Milletvekili Sezgin Tanrıkulu, Ankara Emniyeti'nde gözaltında bulunan eski diplomatlara MİT tarafından işkence yapıldığı iddiasını Meclis gündemine taşıdı. Ankara Barosu’na bağlı Avukat Hakları Merkezi ile Cezaevi Kurulu ve İnsan Hakları Merkezi’nin hazırladığı raporu aktaran Tanrıkulu, KHK ile ihraç edilen Dışişleri Bakanlığı personeli olan yaklaşık 100 kişinin işkenceye maruz kaldığının belirtildiğine dikkat çekerek Cumhurbaşkanı Yardımcısı Fuat Oktay’ın yanıtlaması istemiyle soru önergesi verdi.

The Ankara Bar Association said late Tuesday that five of six detainees interviewed reported being stripped, beaten and threatened with object rape.

Turkish former diplomats accused of links to an outlawed group have been subjected to torture and sexual abuse while in police custody, the Ankara Bar Association announced on Tuesday.

Five Turkish foreign ministry staff detained last week on suspicion of links to a failed coup three years ago have said they have been tortured and mistreated in custody, the Ankara Lawyers’ Bar Association said on Tuesday.

L'association du Barreau d'Ankara a affirmé mercredi qu'au moins cinq ex-employés du ministère des Affaires étrangères avaient été torturés après leur arrestation pour des liens présumés avec le putsch manqué de juillet 2016.

L'association du Barreau d'Ankara a affirmé mercredi qu'au moins cinq ex-employés du ministère des Affaires étrangères avaient été torturés après leur arrestation pour des liens présumés avec le putsch manqué de juillet 2016.

2010-2013 yılları arasında Dışişleri Bakanlığı Aday Meslek Memurluğu sınavında kopya çektikleri iddiasıyla 249 eski bakanlık çalışanı hakkında geçtiğimiz hafta gözaltı kararı çıkarıldı. Gözaltına alınan bazı kişilerin, "etkin pişmanlıktan yararlanma dilekçesi imzalayarak itirafçı olmaları için" Ankara Emniyet Müdürlüğü'nde sistematik işkenceye maruz kaldıkları iddia edildi.

In a statement, the Ankara Lawyers’ Bar Association, the main lawyers’ group in the capital, said some 100 suspects had been detained so far and that lawyers from the bar had held meetings with six detainees after social media and opposition reports of alleged torture.

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a deputy from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and a renowned human rights activist, raised the issue from his Twitter account on Sunday, tweeting, “There are claims of acts of heavy torture including inserting a truncheon into someone’s anus on former Foreign Ministry staff who are currently under detention at the Ankara Police Department’s financial crimes department.”

6 Mayıs 2019 günü kamuoyuna ve basına yansıyan Ankara İl Emniyet Müdürlüğü Mali Suçlar Soruşturma Bürosundaki işkence iddialarına ilişkin Ankara Barosu Avukat Hakları Merkezi, Cezaevi Kurulu ve İnsan Hakları Merkezi tarafından yapılan görüşme incelemelere ilişkin rapordur.