According to a report issued by Amnesty International, all women are sexually assaulted when they are tortured. Men fondle their breasts and finger their genitals. The torture of women, which entails sexually motivated violence against the female gender, means that the imprisonment of women in Turkey represents a gender-specific form of human rights violations. Germany's federal government, led by Chancellor Kohl and Foreign Minister Kinkel, likes to make an issue of human rights violations if the regime in question is not on good terms with Bonn. It has been known for years that when women are captured by the Turkish security forces they are subjected to the worst forms of humiliation, torture, and rape, a systematic violation of their human rights which usually only takes place in totalitarian states far away from the public eye.
Women are third-class people.
Without a doubt, women are doubly affected by torture. First of all, as soon as a women reaches the anti-terror police headquarters, she is insulted because of her gender and verbally abused. It is always men that carry out these forms of torture. These are men who go home after work to their wives, daughters, and mothers. The next morning, these same men rape imprisoned women, usually Kurds, torture them with electric shocks, and generally humiliate and abuse female prisoners.