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  • AP Exclusive: Doctors in Turkey describe police assaults, govt harassment over summer protests

    AP Exclusive: Doctors in Turkey describe police assaults, govt harassment over summer protests

    FILE - In this June 2013 file photo, a doctor helps a demonstrator affected with pepper gas during clashes with riot police near Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey. During the height of Turkey's summer of upheaval, more than a dozen Turkish doctors interviewed by The Associated Press say authorities assaulted them with tear gas, pressured them to reveal the names of patients and ignored calls for resources. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)The Associated Press
    FILE – In this June 2013 file photo, a doctor helps a demonstrator affected with pepper gas during clashes with riot police near Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey. During the height of Turkey’s summer of upheaval, more than a dozen Turkish doctors interviewed by The Associated Press say authorities assaulted them with tear gas, pressured them to reveal the names of patients and ignored calls for resources. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)The Associated Press

     

     

    FILE - In this May 31, 2013, file photo, volunteer Turkish doctors help a demonstrator afftected with pepper gas during clashes with riot police near Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey. During the height of Turkey's summer of upheaval, more than a dozen Turkish doctors interviewed by The Associated Press say authorities assaulted them with tear gas, pressured them to reveal the names of patients and ignored calls for resources. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)The Associated Press
    FILE – In this May 31, 2013, file photo, volunteer Turkish doctors help a demonstrator afftected with pepper gas during clashes with riot police near Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey. During the height of Turkey’s summer of upheaval, more than a dozen Turkish doctors interviewed by The Associated Press say authorities assaulted them with tear gas, pressured them to reveal the names of patients and ignored calls for resources. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)The Associated Press

     

    Protester affected by teargas
    Protester affected by teargas

     

    FILE – In this June 11, 2013, file photo, a protester affected by tear gas is helped by other protesters to a field hospital in Gezi Park inTaksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey. During the height of Turkey’s summer of upheaval, more than a dozen Turkish doctors interviewed by The Associated Press say authorities assaulted them with tear gas, pressured them to reveal the names of patients and ignored calls for resources. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis, File)The Associated Press

     

    Riot police gas canisters
    Riot police gas canisters

    FILE – In this May 31, 2013, file photo, riot police use tear gas and pressurized water to quash a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of people staging a sit-in protest to try and prevent the demolition of trees at Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey. During the height of Turkey’s summer of upheaval, more than a dozen Turkish doctors interviewed by The Associated Press say authorities assaulted them with tear gas, pressured them to reveal the names of patients and ignored calls for resources. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)The Associated Press

    FILE - In this June 8, 2013, file photo, Turkish protesters, mostly soccer fans of Besiktas who call themselves "Carsi" wave a poster of Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk as they celebrate in rain at the city's Kugulu Park in Ankara, Turkey. It was the height of Turkey’s summer of upheaval, and riot police were hammering protesters. The tear gas at Istanbul’s Taksim Square was so thick that doctors trying to treat the wounded in a makeshift clinic could barely breathe or see. So a group of them, all wearing white lab coats, set off to find relief in a nearby hospital. They turned into an alley and came face-to-face with police, just yards away. The officers took aim, lifted their guns and launched tear gas canisters straight at the medics.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)The Associated Press
    FILE – In this June 8, 2013, file photo, Turkish protesters, mostly soccer fans of Besiktas who call themselves “Carsi” wave a poster of Turkey’s founder Kemal Ataturk as they celebrate in rain at the city’s Kugulu Park in Ankara, Turkey. It was the height of Turkey’s summer of upheaval, and riot police were hammering protesters. The tear gas at Istanbul’s Taksim Square was so thick that doctors trying to treat the wounded in a makeshift clinic could barely breathe or see. So a group of them, all wearing white lab coats, set off to find relief in a nearby hospital. They turned into an alley and came face-to-face with police, just yards away. The officers took aim, lifted their guns and launched tear gas canisters straight at the medics.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)The Associated Press

     

    ISTANBUL –  More than a dozen Turkish doctors interviewed by The Associated Press say that during summer protests authorities assaulted them with tear gas, pressured them to reveal the names of patients and ignored calls for resources.

    Dr. Selcuk Atalay, the general secretary of the Turkish Medical Association’s Ankara chapter, says “something happened during the protests in June that usually doesn’t happen in war.”

    An indictment signed last month against a doctor and a medical student, seen by the AP, contradicts a government statement that it would take no action against medical personnel giving care to protesters. Critics say a bill passed last week could give authorities new powers to prosecute doctors for unauthorized care.

    The Ministry of Health says claims of shortfalls in health services are “greatly unfair.”

     

  • UK Savile probe to investigate doctors

    UK Savile probe to investigate doctors

    JimmyInformation on three doctors who worked at hospitals where Jimmy Savile had links has been passed to police amid claims they were involved in a network of child abusers connected with the disgraced presenter.

    The Guardian said the trio were alleged to have abused young people in their care and were identified by victims who came forward in the last two weeks.

    Police are examining individuals who might have had access to vulnerable children, some of whom were associated with Savile, the newspaper said.

    The former DJ, who died last year aged 84, had a bedroom at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, an office and living quarters at Broadmoor and widespread access to Leeds General Infirmary.

    Since the allegations about Savile emerged the children’s charity the NSPCC said it has received 161 calls relating to him, which have been passed to police.

    A decision not to prosecute Savile over abuse allegations in 2009 will come under the spotlight again after the Prime Minister said Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer would review legal papers from the case.

    Surrey Police submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) containing references to four potential offences, including an allegation of indecent assault on a young girl at a children’s home, but it was dropped due to a lack of evidence.

    David Cameron told MPs it was essential that lessons were learned from the scandal of Savile’s decades of sexual abuse.

    Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, he said: “The Director of Public Prosecutions has confirmed that his principal legal adviser will again review the papers from the time when a case was put to the CPS for prosecution. The Director of Public Prosecutions specifically is going to consider what more can be done to alert relevant authorities where there are concerns that a prosecution is not taken forward. The Government will do everything it can do, other institutions must do what they can do, to make sure that we learn the lesson of this and it can never happen again.”

    Mr Starmer said the evidence was considered by prosecutors, but because the alleged victims would not support police action, it was decided not to proceed. As the number of allegations against Savile has snowballed, Mr Starmer asked the chief Crown prosecutor for the South East, Roger Coe-Salazar, to look at the files again. He concluded the correct decision was taken, although the files will again be reviewed “out of an abundance of caution”.

     

     

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