Turkish soldiers tortured two Kurdish villagers they had detained, throwing them from a helicopter after battering them, eyewitnesses claim.
A medical report for one of the villagers states that he suffered injuries consistent with a fall from a height.
Military forces reportedly detained Osman Şiban, 50, and Servet Turgut, 55, on Sept. 11 while working on a farm in the eastern city of Van.
The soldiers interrogated the two villagers under torture and threw them from the helicopter, Sarısaç claims, citing their families.
Askerlerin gözaltına alınıp “helikopterden attığı" iddia edilen ve 2 gün sonra yoğun bakımda oldukları öğrenilen iki kişiden Osman Şiban'ın gördüğü işkence fotoğraflandı.
Lawyers for the villagers filed a criminal complaint against the soldiers, Mezopotamya reported.
According to the report villagers on the scene while the two were being detained allege that the soldiers threatened to shoot them when they protested the detention. »