26 people, named in this action, most of whom are students, were recently detained during a police operation in Istanbul, which was reportedly carried out against the illegal Turkish Revolutionary Communist Party/Turkish Union of Communist Youth. All, with the exception of Nedim Koroglu, were detained on 8 January 1993 and are currently being interrogated at the Anti-Terror Branch of Istanbul Police Headquarters. Nedim Koroglu was reportedly detained on 12 January 1993 but the authorities deny his detention; it is feared that he may be “disappeared”. AI fears that the others named above are being interrogated under torture.
