Turkish Medical Association released a statement concerning images indicating that detained and arrested suspects of the attempted coup have been subjected to torture and torture claims that are reported by human rights foundations.
Turkish
Medical Association stated: “Regardless of the majority of the
crimes and the fear imposed on the society by those crimes, torture
is an offense and unacceptable. Though European Convention on Human
Rights is temporarily suspended [in Turkey], prohibition of torture
is necessary and essential under any
circumstance -including war, clash and state of emergency. In terms
of international law, “prohibition of torture” is not limited to
“not to exercise it”; it also imposes a responsibility on the
state to put in place preventive measures and mechanisms, to carry
out regular independent inspections of all places of detention,
imprisonment and conviction, to conduct effective medical and legal
investigation concerning torture claims, to prosecute and punish the
torturers and the ones who assisted them. The state is obliged to
fulfill these responsibilities under any circumstance.”
