Being a professor not enough to be a human

It has to be asked of Professor Celal ?engör, who ruined an exceptionally sunny Sunday for many of us with his poisonous ideas in an interview with Radikal's Arma?an Ça?layan, while he praised late military leader Kenan Evren and the Sept. 12 military coup, together with his hate for democracy and his ambition for oligarchy, what he was trying to prove by gorillas at a zoo that making people eat feces in prison was not torture?  

I wonder if, according to him, puncturing people's soles and palms by hitting with sticks, batons, chains and irons was torture. 

Was it torture, I wonder, to make people form a circle and make others form circles on top of them up to three to four levels and order them to jump down? 

Was it torture, I wonder, to strip people naked and advance wolfhounds on them? 

I wonder if it was torture to hang people upside down, tied with a chain on one leg and keep them there until they passed out. 

Was it torture to lay 50 people on top of each other and make then chant the national anthem? 

Was it torture to make people smoke five cigarettes simultaneously and make them eat the filters when they were finished? 

Was it torture to force people to line up, while stark naked, and ask one to lie down while another lifts him up by his genitals? 

Was it torture to line people up and make the one behind climb on the back of the person in front and make them walk until they collapsed? 

Was it torture to force people to go under a bunker and because they cannot fit, hit arms and legs that remain outside with clubs? 

Was it torture to reenact a court trial, interrogate people, sentence them to death, and then pretend to hang them with a makeshift noose under a staircase,...