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Kurdish women tortured by dogs and sexually assaulted during brutal police raid in Turkey

THE lawyer of a Kurdish woman who was tortured and attacked by dogs during an interrogation by the Turkish state last Friday was hauled in for questioning after publishing photographs showing her sickening injuries.

Sevil Rojbin Cetin’s Diyarbakir home was raided by security services when they smashed the door down with a sledgehammer setting two dogs onto her in a brutal three-and-a-half-hour interrogation.

Hundreds of anti-terror police surrounded the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) executive member’s apartment block while those inside the building blindfolded her, stripped her and subjected her to sexual abuse.

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