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US State Department
report says torture
persists in Turkey
'Methods include systematic beatings & vaginal,
anal rape with truncheons and gun barrels'
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON-
Despite pledges of
refonn by the Turkish government, tort~re
and excessive use of force by the secunty
forces persisted in 1993, the U.S. State
Department reported Juesday. .
"Turkey's primary human nghts problems
in 1993 continäed to be the torture of
people in police cu~(ody'during periods of
mcommunicado detentIOn and mterrogation,"
the annual \vorld human rights surveIt
s~fci 'that sec~rit;'forces used ~xcessive
force against noncombatants m the
southeastern provinces "where .the governinent
continued to face terronst Violence
from the sepàratist insurgency of the
Kurdistan Workers':.Party (PKK)." The
.report also said the I(ùrdish uprising led to
authorities restricting freedom of expression
and association. and to "disappearances
and 'mysiery killings' that appear to
be politically motivated~" .'
. The State Department accused the
Kurdish rebels and Islamic extremists of
terrorist acts.
"Actions' by both Turkish authorities
and the PKK contributed to the overaIl
~eterioration of t~e _human rights situalion,"
the report said. .
It said the government ofTurkey's first
woman priine minister Tansu Çiller,
acknowledging international concern f
promised "to establish a state vfl