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Ex-diplomats subjected to severe torture, says deputy
by Stockholm Center for Freedom, published on May 28, 2019
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a deputy from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and a renowned human rights activist, raised the issue from his Twitter account on Sunday, tweeting, “There are claims of acts of heavy torture including inserting a truncheon into someone’s anus on former Foreign Ministry staff who are currently under detention at the Ankara Police Department’s financial crimes department.”