Turkey: Man Dies After Military Custody

Click to expand Image Servet Turgut died on September 30 of injuries incurred while in military custody. Pictured here in his village with his grandchild.  © 2020 Private (Istanbul) – A Kurdish man has died after security forces arrested him and another man and took them away from their village in southeastern Turkey in a helicopter on September 11, 2020, Human Rights Watch said today. The two men were hospitalized two hours after being arrested. A medical report attributed the fatal injuries of Servet Turgut, 55, to an “unspecified fall” and the injuries of the other man, Osman Siban,…

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