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STRASBOURG 06.09.2006 - The Council of Europe's Committee for the prevention
of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) has
published today the report on its most recent visit to Turkey, in December
2005, together with the response of the Turkish Government.
These documents have been made public at the request of the Turkish
authorities. During the December 2005 ad hoc visit, the CPT's delegation
reviewed the situation in practice as regards the treatment of persons held
by the law enforcement agencies (police and gendarmerie) and assessed the
day-to-day operation of the legal safeguards against ill-treatment currently
in force. Attention was also given to developments in F-type (high-security)
Prisons, in particular as regards communal activities for inmates and the
regime applied to prisoners serving a sentence of aggravated life
imprisonment. A third objective of the visit was to examine procedures for
the administration of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in psychiatric
establishments. The CPT's visit report and the response of the Turkish
Government are available on the Committee's website
http://cpt.coe.int/documents/tur/2006-30-inf-eng.htm.
Particularly situation of Abdullah Ocalan the CPT's said: "Although this was
not one of the three issues focussed upon during the visit, certain
questions related to the conditions of detention of Abdullah Öcalan were
also raised during the end-of-visit talks. The continuing difficulties of
access to Ýmrali Island for the relatives and lawyers of this prisoner (and
more specifically the fact that the vessel Tuzla has still not entered
into service) are a matter of particular concern. This subject will be
pursued separately, in the context of the CPTs ongoing dialogue with the
Turkish authorities."