#DEVELOPING Turkey’s compliance with the European anti-torture convention is being reviewed at the United Nations Committee for the Prevention of Torture (UNCAT) on 17-18 July. Controversy erupted as the head of the Turkey delegation and the Chief Legal Advisor were both identified as perpetrators of alleged international torture.
Kıvılcım Kılıç, the head of the Turkey delegation, and Director General for Multilateral Relations in Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, is alleged to have played a leading role in the kidnapping of Turkish teachers from Kosovo under torture in 2018.
Rüştü Yılmaz, Chief Legal Advisor, General Directorate of Security (Turkish police force), allegedly formed a team for torture operations against civilians in Kurdish-majority Şanlıurfa (Riha) between 2015 and 2021, enabled ISIS terror attacks, and had a role in war crimes in Syria.
A campaign has been launched online demanding the immediate arrest of Yilmaz, and exposing the hypocrisy involving alleged perpetrators of torture leading an anti-torture delegation.
