European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday january 5,1989 scathing report on torture in Turkey released by group London up amnesty International said tuesday it has received reports nearly every Day in the past two months of widespread torture in Turkey Anat nation where it said police soldiers and prison officials regularly Force confessions out of men women and children through beatings sexual abuse electric shocks and even crucifixion. The 73-Page report by the London based organization that monitors human rights violations around the world was one of the most scathing documents amnesty inter National has published on a single nation in recent years and by far the most damning on a nato nation. The turkish government failed to respond seriously to the documented evidence of mistreatment that included forms of crucifixion amnesty said. It said Turkey still had an appalling human right record despite a Public relations Effort by its embassies around the world to improve its image and official turkish ratification of european and . Conventions against torture. For years amnesty International has been concerned about extensive violation of human rights in Turkey in All areas of its mandate prisoners of conscience unfair trials of political prisoners the use of torture and the death penalty. The most notable is the use of torture. Amnesty has received reports of torture from Turkey virtually daily during the past two months it said. It said the victims of physical and mental torture prac tired nationwide included members of outlawed political parties Trade unionists religious activists members of the kurdish ethnic minority journalists editors and writers and in a number of cases women and children. The examples such As the Case of Zgur Cem tas Aboy aged 13, made chilling Reading. He was taken to the police Headquarters in Diyarbakir in Eastern tur key on june 30 because his cousins were suspected of supporting kurdish guerrillas. I was taken to the sixth floor of the police head quarters. I was blindfolded and handcuffed. They applied Falatka a turkish form of beating the Bare soles of the feet with a stick for 25 minutes. Afterwards my hands were untied and i was sus Pended from Hooks and electric shocks were applied to my Penis. I told them i did t know where my Cousin were. When released i told them i would make a complaint. They said even if you complain to god what does it matter " he said. In january Yasar Tahan a political prisoner told state Security court they fixed electric cables to the Little Finger of my right hand and to my genitals. Everyday i was subjected to electric shocks for one or two hours. I was hosed with pressurized ice cold  squeezing my Testicles they inflicted the most awful pain. On one occasion i was crucified he  Merha Metliz a former teacher and Law student was detained in Adana South Turkey in a gust 1987, with 20 people accused of being members of the banned group Tsip. He described How he was tortured. They accused me of being the Tsip member i charge of the Aegean Region. They stripped me Stark naked tied my arms behind my Back and suspended me by my wrists so that my feet could t touch the ground Merha Metliz said. I Don t remember How Long i stayed like this but had the feeling my arms were being torn off. I could hardly breathe and my Chest Felt As if it was bursting. They swore at me and asked me to undress. When i refused they stripped me by Force. One person sat Only feet one held my head and two held my arms. At this moment somebody squeezed my  i moved i was punched and kicked. For three Days of detention they squeezed my Testicles beat and kicked me and squeezed my Throat Merha Metliz said. Amnesty catalogued cases such As a Man being forced in Public View to stand with his legs apart against a Village Wall while officials fired bullets that just missed him. The report told of relatives being forced to listen to tapes of loved ones being tortured or watch them being raped of cases in which officials pushed Batons up the backsides of their  said that since the sept. 12, 1980, military coup in Turkey an estimated 250,000 political prison ers have been detained and that most of them tortured. It said thousands have been imprisoned for non Vio Lent political or religious activities Over 60,000 Politi Cal detainees have been jailed after unfair trials over700 sentenced to death and at least 200 were killed As a result of torture while in custody. The authorities appear reluctant to take even the most elementary practical Steps to eradicate human rights abuses and have failed to implement the provi Sions of the International conventions it ratified the report said. Dolphins credited with defending australian surfer attacked by shark Sydney Australia a dolphins saved the life of a 17-year-old who was attacked by a shark while surfing off the Northern coast of new South Wales state police said tuesday. Authorities said a group of dolphins chased off the Large shark that attacked Adam Mcguire and severely lacerated his Abdomen while he was surfing at Evans head about 400 Miles North of Sydney. Mcguire from Newcastle about 100 Miles North of Sydney managed to swim ashore where he raised the alarm and was attended by ambulance officers. Mcguire was in a stable condition after surgery. Police said Mcguire had been surfing about 100 Yards off half tide Beach with two friends when what was believed to be a Tiger shark attacked him twice. Police asked Sydney expert John Hajje to identify the shark from a plaster cast of the bite on the surf Board. I can t be sure until i see the bite he said but from the description they gave me it appears to have been quite a big one about four meters 13 feet and in that area it s probably a  he said Mcguire could probably thank his surf Board As much As the dolphins for his survival. The police told me that when the shark attacked it took a chunk out of the Board and he fell off he said. Hajje said it was not the first time he had heard of dolphins intervening in a shark attack although he had yet to confirm the details of this incident. Dolphins Are highly intelligent creatures he said and it certainly would t be beyond them to know when a human s in distress and help  Evans head police Constable Greg Smith shows the shark bite in Adam Mcguire s surfboard tuesday. World today Cambodia raises Reward Given rebels who defect Bangkok Thailand a to Mark its first decade in Power Cambodia s pro Vietnam Ese government says it has increased the rewards it gives defectors from guerrilla groups. The offer was made in a circular signed by Premier Hun sen and broadcast Over the official radio monday. A text of the circular was seen in Bangkok wednesday. The circular said that from Jan. 1 to 31, mis led persons who return to the revolution and bring along weapons War Materiel and important documents will receive double the Reward set in a sept. 1, 1987, directive. Details of that directive were not available. Vietnamese forces installed the cambodian government on Jan. 7, 1979, two weeks after launching a full scale invasion of cambo Dia. Vietnamese and cambodian government forces have been fighting a largely stalemated War against guerrilla forces. Poland gives Legal status to . Friendship group Warsaw Poland a communist authorities say they have legally registered a pol-ish-. Friendship organization in what appears to be the government s first official approval of such a group. At least two other organizations seeking to promote polish-. Relations have attempted to gain Legal status since 1987 but were denied per Mission. The Poland Usa association registered in the Western City of Poznan will be allowed to operate nationwide the state run Pap new Agency said in a dispatch monday. Its goal will be to familiarize poles with current social eco nomic and political issues in the United states. A . Embassy spokesman in Warsaw said the embassy was aware of the group. Poland has Friendship societies with at least45 other countries ranging from Iceland to Libya to Canada and the soviet Union. Faulty stove suspected in fatal House fire in Spain Murcia Spain a a fire believe started by a faulty stove killed six girls sunday in this Southeastern Spanish City a fire depart ment official said monday. Speaking on Spanish National radio the unidentified official said the fire was reported around 11 30 . On the third floor of a Multi family dwelling. The official said the dead ranged in age from2 to 13 years. The official said the Mother of the victim Sand another child survived the fire. Pole reaches Summit of 4th-highest Mountain Katmandu Nepal a a polish Mem Ber of a belgian expedition has reached the sum Mit of the 27,932-foot mount Lhotse the world s fourth tallest Peak Nepal s tourism ministry announced tuesday. The ministry said Krzysztof Wielicki 38,from tychy Poland reached the top last sat urday without using an artificial oxygen Supply. Wielicki and another pole Leszek Cichy 34,of Warsaw both started for the Summit from the expedition s third Camp at 24,272 feet but Cichy had to turn Back. Both climbers returned safely to their third Camp the ministry said. They were with a 17-member belgian expedition led by Herman August Maria Detienne 52, of Antwerp. The expedition abandoned its original plan to comb mount Everest after the death of a Sherpa guide on the world s tallest Peak on dec. 23. But it went ahead with plans to climb Lhotse one of two sister peaks of Everest