Ayten ͖ztͼrk's appeal for the pronouncement of sentence
After Ayten Öztürk was abducted from Lebanon and brought back to Turkey, she was tortured for six months in a secret place and then arrested. On 9 January at 1 p.m. the sentence will be pronounced. She will be tried before the criminal court. The people's lawyers (Halkın Hukuk Bürosu) report about the hearing in the Caglayan court building: «On 09.01.2020 (Thursday) there will be a hearing of our client Ayten Öztürk in the Caglayan court building. We invite everyone."
She was arrested in Lebanon at Beirut airport on March 8, 2018 and taken to Turkey by the Turkish government in a private plane on March 13, 2018. A few minutes after she was arrested by "state officials" due to a big campaign by her comrades, who had not heard from her for six months, she was left on an empty lot and then Ayten Öztürk was arrested by regular police on August 28, 2018.
In the statement made by the People's Advocates, it was reported in the social media that Öztürk was arrested by the examining magistrate, while the torture statements made by Ayten Öztürk were not heard by the prosecutor and the judge either during the criminal prosecution or during the interrogation phase. The statements of her lawyers and herself were not recorded in the minutes".
"Our client Ayten Öztürk was arrested at Lebanon airport on March 8 and taken to Turkey on March 13. Between March 13 and August 28, she was in the hands of the counter guerrillas. She was subjected to all kinds of torture because she refused to cooperate."
Ayten Öztürk was subjected to all kinds of threats and torture and a total of 868 scars were found on her body!
During these six months she was tortured with electric shocks and traces of burns on her body, and her lawyers had informed her that she was also subjected to torture such as being under pressure to water, suspension and falaka. After 6 months of torture and psychological pressure, Ayten Öztürk had dropped to 40 kilos and could not survive!
Ayten Özürk, who appeared before the judge at the last hearing at the beginning of June last year, stated that the official date of detention in the anti-terrorism department in Ankara was 28 August 2018, but this did not reflect the truth: "I was taken into custody on 13 March 2018. After I had been tortured for about 6 months, I was handed over to the police at midnight in an open-air staging. I was subjected to severe torture, electrical, sexual and psychological torture. Due to my experiences, hundreds of wounds appeared on my body and I fell to 40 kilos "!
Violence against women, beatings and ill-treatment of women are published daily in our country. As for all women who have been subjected to violence, Ayten Öztürk should not remain silent in the face of these atrocities. We would like to emphasise that Ayten Öztürk will not attend the hearing on 9 January alone in order to punish those responsible for these atrocities, to implement the law and to find justice. To find justice!
Dogan Press Agency
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