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The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) published a brief fact sheet following its visit to Turkey.
During its visit between August 29 - September 6, the committee held consultations with representatives of various NGOs, with Süleyman Soylu, Minister of the Interior, Bekir Bozdağ, Minister of Justice, Sebahattin Öztürk, Deputy Minister of the Interior, Mükerrem Ünlüer, Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Celalettin Lekesiz, Director General of the Turkish National Police, and Enis Yavuz Yıldırım, Director General of Prisons and Detention Houses, as well as with other senior officials of the Ministries of the Interior, Justice and Foreign Affairs. Discussions were also held with Hikmet Tülen, President of the National Human Rights and Equality Institution, in his capacity as Head of the National Preventive Mechanism set up under the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture (OPCAT).
The delegation also visited Ankara Police Headquarters (Anti-Terror Department, Law and Order Department, Organised Crime Department, temporary detention facility), Gölbaşi District Police Headquarters, Ankara-Sincan Prison Campus, İstanbul-Silivri Prison Campus as well as Izmir F-type Prison No. 1 and discussed with the relevant authorities certain issues related to the situation of Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners currently held at İmralı F-type High-Security Prison.
The CPT has announced that the report on the visit will be sent to the Turkish authorities in November 2016. (ÇT/DG)
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