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2016-10-26 The Grand Turk
Detainees tortured by police during Turkey’s emergency state: HRW
[Iran Press TV] Human Rights Watch
... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge....
(HRW) says a state of emergency declared in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
following the abortive July 15 military coup has been used by police forces to torture and abuse people tossed in the clink
You have the right to remain silent...
In a 43-page report published on Tuesday, the New York-based rights group said that a "climate of fear" prevails in Turkey since the failed putsch.

"By removing safeguards against torture, the Turkish government effectively wrote a blank check to law enforcement agencies to torture and mistreat detainees as they like," said Hugh Williamson, HRW's Europe and Central Asia director.
The watchdog cited 13 cases of alleged abuse, including torture, sleep deprivation, severe beatings, sexual abuse and rape threats among people arrested in the post-coup crackdown.

It further detailed examples of detainees with bruises on their body and said that some lawyers were too scared to record evidence that their clients had been subjected to torture.

"There was not a part of (a detainee's) body that was not covered in bruises," an unnamed forensic specialist told HRW.

An unidentified Istanbul-based lawyer also said that her client had confirmed that officers "threatened to rape them and their wives."

The report also quoted a police officer telling a detainee, "Because of the state of emergency, nobody will care if I kill you. I will just say I shot you while you tried to run away."

The HRW report was based on interviews between August and September with 40 people, including lawyers, human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
activists, former detainees, medical personnel and forensic specialists.

Turkey Tells US to Extradite Coup Suspect or Hurt Ties

[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag on Tuesday urged Washington to extradite the alleged July coup criminal mastermind Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
to avoid damaging bilateral ties, comparing him to slain al-Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
wants the US-based preacher to be sent home to face charges of "ordering the July 15 failed coup" during which a rogue military faction tried to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
from power.

"If (Gulen) is not extradited or the process is dragged out, this will have a negative impact on relations between America and Turkey.

"What we want now is for relations not to come to a negative point because of a terrorist. That is our wish, "Bozdag told news hounds at Ankara airport, quoted by the official Anadolu news agency.

Gulen strongly denies the accusations.

Bozdag added that "everything Bin Laden represents to the United States, Fethullah Gulen represents for the Turkish state."

He was speaking ahead of flying to the US where he will meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to discuss Gulen and the aftermath of the attempted putsch.

For Gulen’s extradition, the US insists legal provisions must be met.

During a visit to Turkey in August, US Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
insisted that Washington has no wish to protect anyone harming an ally, while adding that "we need to meet the legal standard requirement under our law".
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