Seven weeks ago, when Turkish police arrested four U.S. sergeants stationed at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Izmir for alleged currency violations, U.S. Consul in Izmir Donald B. Eddy publicly pooh-poohed reports that two of the sergeants had been tortured into making confessions. Informed that a senior U.S. officer in the NATO command had supported the brutality charges, Eddy firmly informed newsmen: "In my opinion it is impossible for a responsible American officer to make such a statement." Last week the Izmir public prosecutor's office formally charged Police Inspector Yilmaz Capin and Policeman Ilhan Suyolcu with mistreating the protesting sergeants during...
TURKEY: Sergeants on Trial (Contd.)
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