Tag Archives: Pepper Gas

Türkiye’den Şiddet Hikayeleri: “I was tortured for hours, physically and psychologically”

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During the Gezi protests, the night of 2nd June, Anatolian University student Caner Ertay was subjected to police torture, first by the riot police and then by the anti-terror branch. Ertay told what happened that night to ‘Stories of Violence from Turkey’, how he was carried in the trunk of a car rom hospital to hospital. This was the same [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: Chamber of Chemical Engineers – “Pepper Gas is in Chemical Weapon Category”

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Architects and Engineers Chambers Union of Turkey’s Chemical Engineers Chamber listed the hazardous effects of pepper gas, saying that pepper gas bombs and bullets used by police forces took part in chemical weapon category. Architects and Engineers Chambers Union of Turkey’s (TMMOB) Chemical Engineers Chamber said that pepper gas bombs and bullets used by police forces took part in chemical [...] → Read the full article…