IHD: Balance Of Human Rights Abuses In Turkey
January-December 1997

Murders by "unknown assailants"    109
Killed in police custody           114
Killed in military clashes         2,514
Civilian casualties                151 dead, 239 wounded
"Disappeared" in police custody    66
Registered cases of torture        366
Arbitrary arrests                  27,308
Persons imprisoned                 1,273
Villages and hamlets depopulated   23
Bomb attacks                       127
Parties, unions, etc. banned       153
Attacks and raids on offices       213
Arrested press workers             298
Publications confiscated           278
Prisoners of conscience            105

(Source: IHD, Turkish Human Rights Association)