Turkey: A History of Sexual Violence
The rape and torture of Kurdish prisoners in Turkey are disturbingly commonplace
Guardian Professional, Monday 10 June 2013 10.19 EDT
"I was blindfolded, stripped naked, beaten...and they tried to put sticks up my anus. I fainted," stated 37-year-old mother of three, Hamdiye Aslan.
Hamdiye Aslan's alleged perpetrators were five police officers. According to a report from Amnesty International in 2003, she had been detained in Mardin Prison, south-east Turkey, for almost three months in which she was reportedly blindfolded, anally raped with a truncheon, threatened and mocked by officers.
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