AI: Turkey bulletin

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T21888; Wed, 04 Oct 1995 19:39:20 -0800

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EXTERNAL                                            AI Index: EUR 44/103/95

                                                          29 September 1995

Further information on EXTRA 106/95 (EUR 44/93/95, 14 September 1995) and
follow-up (EUR 44/94/95, 15 September) - Fear of "disappearance" / Torture

TURKEY      Zafer Kirbiyik, student, aged 24
            Firdevs Kirbiyik (f), his sister, board member of Health
            Workers' Union (Tum Saglik Sen)


On 23 September, Firdevs Kirbiyik, who had been detained in Mersin on 15
September as she was searching for her "disappeared" brother, was
transferred to the Anti-Terror Branch of the police in Ankara. The
prosecutor in Ankara has given the police permission to hold her for
further interrogation until 5 October.

Her brother Zafer Kirbiyik was formally arrested on 25 September. He was
then committed to Mersin E-type Closed Prison to serve his 12-year prison
sentence. It appears that a further prosecution for membership of an
illegal organization may be brought against him in Konya State Security
Court.

His father was able to see him briefly in Mersin prison. Zafer Kirbiyik
told him that he and his sister were tortured in police custody in Mersin,
but gave no details. It is feared that Firdevs Kirbiyik is being subjected
to further torture at the Anti-Terror Branch of Ankara Police Headquarters.

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