Tag Archives: police violence
Hurriyet Daily News: Court halts prosecution of officer who shot Gezi protester due to lack of permission
An Ankara court has stopped the prosecution process regarding the police officer who shot and killed Ethem Sarısülük during a Gezi Park protest because it does not have permission to try the officer. The Sixth Ankara Criminal Court decided to send the investigation files regarding Sarısülük’s alleged shooter, identified as A.Ş., to the prosecutor’s office for the completion of “the [...] → Read the full article…
International Federation for Human Rights: Turkey: Growing and worrying repression of protesters and civil society
Authorities failing to prosecute crimes against protesters. Following the death of a fifth protester, the FIDH deplores the response to the demonstrations that have been held throughout Turkey since 28 May. Rather than promoting reconciliation and ensuring that Turkey’s citizens are protected and freedom of speech respected, the authorities are engaging in a veritable “witch hunt” against protesters, observers and [...] → Read the full article…
Fıratnews: Who says there’s no torture at Police Stations in Istanbul?
Some people may continuously claim that there is no torture at the police station anymore, Metin Toprak says, yet, they were exposed to all kinds of psychological torture including naked body search, insulting, being dragged on the ground, preventing the need to use toilet. Metin Toprak is a chef cook and he was detained and his nose was broken by a chief police officer on the opening [...] → Read the full article…
Physicians for Human Rights: PHR documents improper use of tear gas and unnecessary force on demonstrators in Turkey
Letter to Turkish Prime Minister Follows In-Country Investigation, Seeks to Stop Excessive Violence and Unlawful Detentions New York Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), the World Medical Association (WMA), the German Medical Association (GMA) and the Standing Committee of European Doctors/Comité Permanent des Médecins Européens (CPME) sent a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan today asking his government to [...] → Read the full article…
Fox News: Death toll in Turkey protests increased to 5
A human rights group says a protester who was in a coma has died, increasing to five the death toll in nationwide anti-government protests that hit Turkey in June. The Turkish Human Rights Foundation says university student Ali Ismail Korkmaz died in the hospital on Wednesday, some seven weeks after he was severely beaten as he escaped tear gas [...] → Read the full article…
Hürriyet: The lawyer of the Gezi detainees, ‘Cops beat us up in the courthouse’
Last Saturday night, the police detained 59 demonstrators who wanted to enter Gezi Park. Among the detainees only 8 of them were issued arrest warrants. In the Çağlayan courthouse, where those 8 protestors were held, it was claimed that three lawyers representing the protestors, two of which are women, were battered by the police because they wanted to take to [...] → Read the full article…
Police attacked with rubber bullets.
A police throwing a gas bomb at an apartment.
This footage, reported to be recorded last night, shows a police throwing a gas bomb at an apartment. Gas bomb breaks the window and and starts to diffuse in the house.
Police shoots rubber bullets from a distance of 50 cm!
The police is shooting (rubber) at somebody who is just standing there.