E/CN.4/1992/52 page 86 Turkey 71. In a communication sent on 25 April 1991 addressed to the Government of Turkey, the following information was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "According to the information received, Miss Norma Jeanne Cox, a United States citizen, was picked up at her home on 11 December 1990 around 10 a.m. by a plainclothes policeman who identified himself as being from the 4th Division (Foreign Police) and was taken by police car to the 4th Division and subsequently to the Operasyon Istihbarat. It has been alleged that she was held for questioning for 36 hours and was deported from Turkey on 12 December 1990 under an administrative order of the Ministry of the Interior for 'disturbing the public1 by engaging in 'Christian propaganda'. It has been reported that the police had declared such activity illegal but failed to indicate the law which stipulates this as an offence and did not cite a specific example of Miss Cox's violation of the law, but questioned her about receiving correspondence which, according to the sources, related to a religious subject. It has further been reported that they refused to issue a copy of the order allegedly issued by the Ministry of the Interior for the deportation of Miss Cox or any written accusation against her." United States of America 72. On 8 November 1991 the Special Rapporteur sent the following information to the Government of the United States of America under annex I: "According to the information received, a decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court on 17 April 1990 in the case of Employment Division v. Smith would amount to a restriction of the right of indigenous people to practise their traditional religions. The case, as reported to the Special Rapporteur, has been summarized as follows: The Employment Division of Oregon's Department of Human Resources has denied unemployment compensation to two drug rehabilitation counsellors who are both members of the Native American Church because they had taken a hallucinogenic drug, peyote, which is proscribed by Oregon's controlled substance law, and were therefore considered as dismissed from their jobs for misconduct, despite the fact that this had taken place within the framework of a specific Native American religious ceremony. It has been reported that the peyote cactus has been traditionally used as a sacrament in the carefully circumscribed ritual context of American Indian religious ceremonies and it is said to be vital to the adherents' ability to practise their religion. It is further alleged that the Church's doctrine forbids nonreligious use of peyote and considers its use outside the ritual as sacrilegious. It has reportedly been admitted by scientists and other experts that peyote does not inflict permanent deleterious damage to the Indian and that the spiritual and social support provided by the Native American Church has been effective in combating the effects of alcoholism in the Native American population.