"Torture List: Germany and Greece In, Turkey Out
By Edip Ali Yavuz
Published: Saturday 12, 2005
zaman.com
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has removed Turkey, who had remonstrated to the world twice, from the list of countries that will be investigated for torture and added countries who had criticized Turkey this year.
Turkey, which had been accused of violating human rights in its fight against terrorism, began using the slogan of 'zero tolerance for torture' to help rid it of its past record. Positive results of from recent studies are being obtained. While the CPT announced to the world in 1992 that torture was being implemented in Turkey, it has now removed Turkey from among the list of countries that will be under investigation in 2005."
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