Posted on 07/25/2016 7:30:42 PM PDT by Lera
Amnesty International says it has 'credible evidence' Turkish police are holding detainees, denying them food, water and medical treatment and in the worst cases some have been subjected to severe beatings and torture
Turkish troops imprisoned after the failed military coup are being raped, starved and left without water for days, it is claimed.
Many of the 10,000 detainees are locked up in horses' stables and sports halls - some hogtied in horrific stress positions, according to human rights campaigners.
Amnesty International has called for immediate access to prisoners after the coup a week ago which sparked a brutal crackdown and a three-month state of emergency.
More than 200 died in the uprising which aimed to topple dictatorial President Recep Erdogan - and 1,500 were injured.
Amnesty says it has 'credible evidence' Turkish police are holding detainees in stress positions for up to 48 hours, denying them food, water and medical treatment and in the worst cases some have been subjected to severe beatings and torture, including rape.
*snip* "Despite chilling images and videos of torture that have been widely broadcast across the country, the government has remained conspicuously silent on the abuse. "
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Once you start a coup you might as well fight to the death because they are going to kill you anyway, but nice and slowly.
And this is a NATO country?
You know, Turkey is a real piece of #### country.
I dont care what strategic reasons there are for keeping them in NATO. Work around it.
And people wonder why Trump questions NATO.
WTH is this SICK DEMENTED muslim country doing in it?
I dont care if Russia blasts them straight to hell tomorrow, I dont want our boys dying for Turks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Turkish_Non-Aggression_Pact
So why didn’t these rebels fight when they had the chance?
“I dont care if Russia blasts them straight to hell tomorrow, I dont want our boys dying for Turks”
I wouldn’t hold my breath. Pootin and errDOGan are best buds now.
Erdogan - friend of Obama
Obama’s wet dream for Texans. Too bad we’re armed. Well, too bad for him.
Guess he’ll have to settle for Christians and other non-Muslims being tortured in Turkey and other ME countries....
Obama’s wet dream for Texans. Too bad we’re armed. Well, too bad for him.
Guess he’ll have to settle for Christians and other non-Muslims being tortured in Turkey and other ME countries....
+infinity
at least they weren't water boarded
This is Erdogan purging all resistance to the Caliphate.
He wants to be the new Caliph.
Islamists now completely control Turkey.
The “modern” Turkey of Ataturk is dead.
We should get them out of NATO.
[[Erdogan - friend of Obama]]
The first head of a foreign government he called when he was elected .
“And this is a NATO country?”
Not merely a NATO country, but a -valued- NATO ally according to neocons and the Obama administration, who are pretty much congruent on foreign policy.
I thought June was Pride Month?
Roger Cohen NYT 2/26/16
WASHINGTON — This is the speech President Obama did not make on his foreign policy (with thanks to Stephen Heintz, a shrewd observer of America’s role in the world):
In 2016, we have no business building other nations. It is for them to decide their fates. As a result, I have asked a lot of questions, so many that I hear that Bob Blackwill, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, calls me “the king of the slippery-slope school of foreign policy.”
I’ll take that moniker, if the alternative is to embrace feel-good posturing and drift into another intractable war in which young Americans die for murky causes in the indifferent sands of the Middle East.
Should I have backed the pro-democracy uprising of young Iranians in 2009 against the regime, and might American support have tipped the balance? Should I have done more to ensure the fragile Egyptian experiment in democracy did not fail by pressing former President Mohamed Morsi to restrain his divisive Muslim Brotherhood agenda? Should I have called the coup that ousted him a “coup”?
Should I have armed the rebels in Syria, or established a no-fly zone once President Bashar al-Assad began murdering his citizens en masse, or set up a safe area to protect desperate refugees as a gage of our determination? Should I have upheld through one-off punitive military strikes against Assad the “red line” I set against the use of chemical weapons and so demonstrated to the Saudis and other Sunni gulf states that I was not, as they believe, in the pocket of the Shia world? In short, should I have kept my word and taken more risks to save Syria, oust Assad and stop Putin dictating the outcome?
Perhaps. I know members of my foreign policy team have agonized over Syria and its quarter-million dead. One or two may have been close to resigning. The refugee flow into Europe destabilizes allies. But I do not lose sleep. This job is about tough choices. Restraint was the wiser option for a chastened America unready to pass the mantle but condemned now to share it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/opinion/obamas-implicit-foreign-policy.html?_r=0
Amnesty International says it has ‘credible evidence’ Turkish police are holding detainees, denying them food, water and medical treatment and in the worst cases some have been subjected to severe beatings and torture
Turkish troops imprisoned after the failed military coup are being raped, starved and left without water for days, it is claimed.
Just like Lawrence of Arabia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEy8uMBQWBk
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