Turkey: Further information on fear for safety

Index Number: EUR 44/015/2003
Fecha de publicación: 13 mayo 2003
Categorías: Europa y Asia Central, Turquía

50 year old K. Ö., a Kurdish woman, has received death threats, her house in Adana, southern Turkey,has been raided by police. She was reportedly raped and tortured by police at her home in 1999 and has frequently been threatened and intimidated since then, apparently in an attempt to prevent her from pursuing her case with the European Court of Human Rights(ECHR).