'Rights during investigation - not to be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment' in document 'Turkey - Criminal Procedure Code (TUR)'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

FIRST BOOK - General Provisions

PART FIVE - Interview and interrogation
CHAPTER TWO - Procedure of interview or interrogation

Procedures forbidden during the interview and interrogation

Article 148 – (1) The submissions of the suspect or accused shall be stemming from his own free will. Any bodily or mental intervention that would impair the free will, such as misconduct, torture, administering medicines
or drugs, exhausting, falsification, physical coercion or threatening, using certain equipment, is forbidden.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 55
Rights of persons during an investigation
1. In respect of an investigation under this Statute, a person:
(b) Shall not be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment