The UN Committee Against Torture has asked Turkey to respond within six months to a complaint by Aysun Işınkaralar, who says she was tortured in police custody after being detained over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. The development comes after Turkish prosecutors dismissed Işınkaralar’s torture complaint in April 2024, despite a report by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) supporting her allegations. Işınkaralar, the former director of a student dormitory allegedly affiliated with the Gülen movement, was detained in Afyonkarahisar in May 2018 and held in police custody for four days. She was later sentenced to more than seven years in prison on terrorism-related charges stemming from her alleged links to the Gülen movement. Torture and ill-treatment in police custody and prisons in Turkey have remained a persistent concern since the aftermath of the July 15, 2016, coup attempt.