- Signatures: 5,763
- Goal: 50,000
- Deadline: 6-8-2003
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Dear Professor Hikmet Sami Turk:
We, the undersigned, write to bring your attention to the Zeynep Avci case. Zeynep Avci was reportedly tortured, including being raped and sexually abused, while held in incommunicado detention. Her suspected perpetrators still have not been brought to justice. The 21-year-old Kurdish woman was arrested in Izmir on November 24, 1996 on suspicion of being a member of an armed opposition group, the Workers Liberation Army (PKK).
Zeynep Avci said that during her detention at Izmir Police Headquarters, she was given electric shocks repeatedly over several hours; a truncheon was REPLACEed into anus and she was forced to sit on it until she bled; and one officer, believed to be of high rank, raped her.
A formal complaint was submitted by Zeynep Avci's lawyer in May 1997, but the Izmir prosecutor decided not to investigate the charges because he was told it was impossible to get medical verification of her claims.
In November 1999, she was diagnosed as suffering from acute chronic post traumatic stress disorder.
Zeynep Avci has been in prison since her arrest and still awaits the outcome of her trial.
We urge you to call for an independent and comprehensive investigation, including appropriate medical and psychiatric examinations, into the alleged torture of Zeynep Avci and for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. Please ensure that statements elicited under torture are not used as evidence in the legal procedures against Zeynep Avci.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | Country | Why I am signing this |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,780 | 3:31 am PST, Jan 28 | Ms. | Syreeta Batiste | United States | |
| 5,779 | 1:09 pm PDT, Aug 8 | Mr. | ario love | Iraq | loveee |
| 5,778 | 12:53 pm PDT, Aug 1 | Ms. | Anonymous | United States | fredoom for innocent people. |
| 5,777 | 12:11 am PDT, Jun 21 | Ms. | Edita Hajdar | United States | |
| 5,776 | 11:30 am PDT, Mar 8 | Mr. | J Born | Netherlands | if i read this i'm a shamethat this happens at 2009, and that i'm a men i feel a shame. way the can't treath women like humen, we from the same God from the same mother. way are this men like this. The don't have the right to hurt women, girls, children. |
| 5,775 | 4:56 am PST, Mar 5 | Francis Genette | Belize | Please stop any torture against all human being . | |
| 5,774 | 12:23 am PST, Feb 24 | Rosamond Brown | Norway | ||
| 5,773 | 7:47 pm PST, Jan 5 | Mrs. | Anonymous | Canada | History has shown that the only way to change things for those who can't protect themselves is to strongly advocate. |
| 5,772 | 3:26 am PST, Dec 28 | Mr. | Derek Amory | United Kingdom | Turkey should not be permitted to join the EU until the cowardly police who raped her are brought to justice and this brave young woman is released from prison. |
| 5,771 | 1:16 pm PST, Nov 19 | Mr. | soussanis spyros | Greece | I am against to any torture. This is no civilization |
| 5,770 | 11:54 pm PDT, Nov 1 | Janet Solomon | Canada | ||
| 5,768 | 3:44 pm PDT, Aug 8 | greta malkotzoglou | Greece | ||
| 5,767 | 5:56 pm PDT, Aug 3 | Emeran Pala | South Africa | Because what they are doing to the woman in the kurdish state is pathetic,and someone needs to stand up for these woman | |
| 5,766 | 1:39 pm PDT, Apr 25 | Mr. | Ioannis Andriopoulos | Switzerland | |
| 5,765 | 7:51 am PDT, Apr 18 | Mr. | Christos Archos | Greece | |
| 5,764 | 4:33 pm PDT, Apr 4 | Ms. | Leila Hamid | Canada | Because i think its time for kurdish people to have their freedom |
| 5,763 | 4:20 pm PDT, Apr 4 | Ms. | Anonymous | Canada | bcuz its a horrible thing goin on and Someone needs to stop it |
| 5,762 | 4:12 pm PDT, Apr 4 | Anonymous | Canada | i wanna help kurdish women its a shame how turks do this | |
| 5,761 | 10:39 am PDT, Mar 21 | Ms. | Ginger Geronimo | United States | |
| 5,760 | 6:15 pm PST, Mar 1 | Ms. | Leia Peison | United States | this is soo disturbing. i hope this woman gets help. |
| 5,759 | 6:34 pm PST, Feb 29 | Ms. | DOROTHY ALLEN | United States | STOP THE MADNESS! AND GIVE THE WOMAN JUSTICE! PLEASE FREE HER! |
| 5,758 | 6:21 pm PST, Feb 17 | Ms. | Anonymous | United Kingdom | |
| 5,757 | 8:47 am PST, Feb 12 | Anton Oscar Iorga | Canada | ||
| 5,756 | 4:11 pm PST, Nov 30 | Mr. | geskeem weabury | Canada | we, in this world need to respect one another,so we dont have to treat any one in this inhumane behaviour.please open your mind&heart&free her. |
| 5,755 | 10:11 pm PST, Nov 23 | Mr. | Abi Arditya Darmapradhana | Indonesia | I'll damn they who make women suffered! |
| 5,754 | 12:32 am PST, Nov 23 | Ms. | Elizabeth Ellis | United States | |
| 5,753 | 1:48 am PST, Nov 19 | Mindy Forrester | United States | Because if they don't release her, they will all burn in hell for eternity. | |
| 5,752 | 10:18 am PST, Nov 13 | Laura Rodrigues | Portugal | ||
| 5,751 | 10:36 pm PST, Nov 12 | Peter Burns | United States |
Help Kurdish Woman Tortured in Turkey
Dear Professor Hikmet Sami Turk:
We, the undersigned, write to bring your attention to the Zeynep Avci case. Zeynep Avci was reportedly tortured, including being raped and sexually abused, while held in incommunicado detention. Her suspected perpetrators still have not been brought to justice. The 21-year-old Kurdish woman was arrested in Izmir on November 24, 1996 on suspicion of being a member of an armed opposition group, the Workers Liberation Army (PKK).
Zeynep Avci said that during her detention at Izmir Police Headquarters, she was given electric shocks repeatedly over several hours; a truncheon was REPLACEed into anus and she was forced to sit on it until she bled; and one officer, believed to be of high rank, raped her.
A formal complaint was submitted by Zeynep Avci's lawyer in May 1997, but the Izmir prosecutor decided not to investigate the charges because he was told it was impossible to get medical verification of her claims.
In November 1999, she was diagnosed as suffering from acute chronic post traumatic stress disorder.
Zeynep Avci has been in prison since her arrest and still awaits the outcome of her trial.
We urge you to call for an independent and comprehensive investigation, including appropriate medical and psychiatric examinations, into the alleged torture of Zeynep Avci and for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. Please ensure that statements elicited under torture are not used as evidence in the legal procedures against Zeynep Avci.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
We, the undersigned, write to bring your attention to the Zeynep Avci case. Zeynep Avci was reportedly tortured, including being raped and sexually abused, while held in incommunicado detention. Her suspected perpetrators still have not been brought to justice. The 21-year-old Kurdish woman was arrested in Izmir on November 24, 1996 on suspicion of being a member of an armed opposition group, the Workers Liberation Army (PKK).
Zeynep Avci said that during her detention at Izmir Police Headquarters, she was given electric shocks repeatedly over several hours; a truncheon was REPLACEed into anus and she was forced to sit on it until she bled; and one officer, believed to be of high rank, raped her.
A formal complaint was submitted by Zeynep Avci's lawyer in May 1997, but the Izmir prosecutor decided not to investigate the charges because he was told it was impossible to get medical verification of her claims.
In November 1999, she was diagnosed as suffering from acute chronic post traumatic stress disorder.
Zeynep Avci has been in prison since her arrest and still awaits the outcome of her trial.
We urge you to call for an independent and comprehensive investigation, including appropriate medical and psychiatric examinations, into the alleged torture of Zeynep Avci and for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. Please ensure that statements elicited under torture are not used as evidence in the legal procedures against Zeynep Avci.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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