Torture - crimes against humanity

Turkey

Criminal Code

SECOND VOLUME
Special Provisions

FIRST CHAPTER
International Offenses

FIRST SECTION
Genocide and Offenses against Humanity

Offenses against Humanity

ARTICLE 77- (1) Execution of any one of the following acts systematically under a plan against a sector of a community for political, philosophical, racial or religious reasons, creates the legal consequence of an offenses against humanity.

c) Torturing, infliction of severe suffering, or forcing a person to live as a slave,

Rome Statute

Article 7 Crimes against humanity

1. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:

(f) Torture;

2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:

(e) ‘Torture’ means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;