Işınkaralar’s case highlights quite a number of serious issues including widespread torture and sexual abuse in police custody, the reduction of safeguards against torture, non-compliance with the Istanbul Protocol on medical documentation of torture, impunity and corruption.
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey
Turkey/TİHV: Significant increase in torture cases and impunity persists
There has been an alarming increase in cases of torture and a continuing policy of impunity, according to the new report of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.