Inmates at a prison in the Kurdish-majority city of Batman staged a riot over fears of contamination amid a coronavirus outbreak that has seen more than 25,000 infections and over 500 deaths in the country. The unrest took place in Batman’s Type-M closed prison early on Saturday, according to journalist Ahmet Kanbal, who posted video […]
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The Human Rights Association (İHD) has called on the Turkish government to release a total of 1564 inmates with fatal diseases in the face of COVID-19 outbreak in the country. The İHD released a detailed list of these prisoners who are at risk of contracting the the virus as they are held in unhygienic conditions
More than one million people took to Twitter over the weekend to call on Turkish authorites to release purge-victim prisoners across the country to stem Covid-19. Turkey’s overcrowded, unhygienic prisons are a perfect breeding ground for the pandemic. Turkish government is reportedly preparing a judicial reform package, which includes the release of thousands of prisoners
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The Civil Society Association for the Department of Corrections (CISST) has said that from March 20 to 24 it received complaints from 26 prisons related to COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus, according to the Diken news website. Turkey has not confirmed any cases in correctional institutions, and Minister of Justice Abdülhamit Gül last week
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The European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, Nacho Sanchez Amor, has called on the Turkish government to release hundreds of imprisoned journalists, lawyers, activists and human rights defenders within the scope of a new amnesty bill drafted due to serious health concerns posed to inmates by the novel coronavirus. “According to news, Turkish Gov is planning an
The first Turkish prisoner has allegedly tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Ömer Turanlı, a Turkish lawyer, tweeted on Tuesday that a 70-year-old man at Ankara’s Sincan prison tested positive and “taken into intensive care.” The claim has neither been confirmed nor denied by the Turkish authorities, at time of writing. Turkey’s overcrowded, unhygienic prisons
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As Turkish authorities confirm rapidly increasing cases of the novel coronavirus, 32 bar associations across the country released a joint statement on Wednesday calling for a number of urgent measures aimed at protecting people in the country’s overcrowded prisons and for the immediate release of high-risk inmates. The statement pointed out that there are currently
Mustafa Ulaşlı, a Turkish academic with a PhD thesis on Coronavirus disease, has called on Turkish authorities to reinstate him to his job as part of efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country. “I’m probably the only person with a Phd thesis on Coronavirus in Turkey. Although I was acquitted
Inmates and arrestees at state prisons in Edirne and Balıkesir provinces were quarantined on Tuesday due to possible link to COVID-19 pandemic, the Boldmedya newsportal reported. Turkey has a total of 384 prisons. Based on figures provided by the Justice Ministry, 229,790 people are in prisons with a total capacity of 207,339. Only 141,802 out
Nedim Şener, a pro-government columnist, said during a live interview that Gülenists are worse than the COVID-19 outbreak, which has recently been declared a global pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO). “Coronovirus is a disease that may be dealth with, someday. But Feto [Gulenism] is not. It is an infidelity that does not leave one’s
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