Turkey’s shame: Sexual violence without redress

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A new report published by the Kurdish Human Rights Project<1>, shows how Kurdish women in Turkey have increasingly become the target of State suppression of the Kurdish community and face a continuing and growing risk of sexual violence by state actors.

The first trial observed concerns the case of Sukran Esen, a Kurdish woman who was sexually tortured during three detentions which took place during 1993 and 1994. During these detentions Ms Esen was stripped, subjected to falaka, electric shocks, placed in a car tyre and rolled around, blindfolded and repeatedly raped by several men. All of those indicted for the crime worked at paramilitary police stations; 64 were senior officers.<2>

The second trial concerned the sexual torture and rape of another Kurdish woman on 5 March 2002 by five members of the Anti-Terror branch of the Mardin police. The victim HHamidiye Aslan, a Kurdish mother was detained for 48 hours in the police station where she was blindfolded, subjected to pressurised cold water, verbally abused and anally raped with sticks.

http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=4647

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1. kick for your tax dollars at work

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2. But, but, this just can't be!

The Turkish government forbids the wearing of the hijab in public and government places... A move that just by itself should abolish all social ills. And...and Turkey is so progressive and western.. Things like this never happen in the west....

Please note heavy sarcasm... This is terrible that such crimes should happen anywhere, much less perpetrated by those entrusted to protect us. I wonder if there will be any outcry by our government over these crimes against human rights?

I fear I already know the answer.

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3. Hardly. The US has been "helping Turkey with its Kurd problem"

for more years than it has been playing Bay of Baghdad with the Kurds on the Iraqi side of the border.