January 20, 2008 Special Reports

Human Rights Situation in some Rights Categories between 1999 and 2007

Violation	1999		2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Right of life
Unknown killings	212		145	160	75	50	47	1	20	42
Doubtful deaths/deaths in custody because of extra judicial execution/torture paid guard village	205		173	55	40	44	47	89	130	66
Deaths in clashes	857		147	92	30	104	240	496	345	424
Torture and Ill-treatment	594		594	862	876	1202	1040	825	708	678
People, who taken into custody	50318		35007	44181	31217	12406	9711	2702	5560	7197
Arrests	2105		1937	2955	1148	1196	774	621	1545	1440
Freedom of Opinion/Expression/ Association/Belief and Meeting-Demonstration
Public/Political/Publishing Institutes and Culture Centre that closed down	169	130		146	127	47	13		6	13
Raided Public/Political/Publishing Institutes	266	156		216	83	88	35		48	36 Police Raid/69 attacks
Banned-Seized Publications	283	244		341	169	285	9 (4 books,4 magazines and 1 newspaper)		21	48
Demanded Imprisonment Sentence (launched trials)	525 years 23 months against 166 people	1736 years 11 months against 418 people		5583 years 2 months against 3473 people	6155 years 8 months imprisonment sentence and 108 milliards TL money penalties against 2498 people	5373 years imprisonment sentence against 1706 people	1557 years 2 months imprisonment sentence and 350 milliards money penalties against 467 people	192 People	1013 people are still being judged in 120 cases	190 court cases against 1232 people
Given imprisonment sentence (resulted trials)	575 years	474 years 6 months		209 years 2 months imprisonment sentence were given to 97 people	362 years 7 months imprisonment sentence and 144 milliard 164 million TL fine were given to 228 people	600 years 6 months 4 days imprisonment sentence and 314 milliards 873 millions 788 thousands TL fine were given to 454 people	30 years 9 months imprisonment sentence and 784 milliards 757 millions 402 thousands TL fine were given to 693 people	266 months imprisonment sentence and 264,000YTL fine were given to 59 people	Total 153 cases were resulted and 108 of them were resulted with conviction, 398 people were sentenced (it covers also fine)	191 cases were concluded in 2007. 369 people were were sentenced to 346 years, 4 months, 20 days imprisonment and 49.524,03 YTL (New Turkish Lira) fine.