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September 2000
Vol. 12, No. 10 (D)

TURKEY
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION ACCESSION PARTNERSHIP

INTRODUCTION

PREVENTING TORTURE
Incommunicado detention
Blindfolding
Sexual abuse and rape in police custody
Failure to register detainees and notify their kin
Suppression of medical evidence of ill-treatment and torture
Torture and ill-treatment of children and juveniles
Suppression of complaints of ill-treatment and torture
Suppression of CPT reports
Ineffective state supervision of places of detention
Lack of monitoring of police detention by civil society

SAFEGUARDING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND THE RIGHT OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Imprisonment of conscientious objectors

ENSURING LANGUAGE RIGHTS

COMBATING RESTRICTIONS ON THE HEADSCARF

IMPROVING PRISON CONDITIONS
Small group isolation
Lack of civil society monitoring of prison conditions

LIFTING THE DEATH PENALTY

ENDING REPRESSION OF CIVIL SOCIETY

CONTRIBUTING TO STABILITY IN THE SOUTHEAST
Internal displacement
Failure to investigate "disappearances" and extrajudicial executions committed during the 1990s

PROTECTING REFUGEES

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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