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 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
Access to opposition news portal Oda TV was blocked by a Turkish court late on Thursday. The court ruling came a day after Barış Terkoğlu, the news director of the Oda TV news portal, was sent to prison over his reports regarding the 34 Turkish soldiers who were killed in airstrikes in Syria’s Idlib last week.
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Barış Terkoğlu, the news director of the Oda TV news portal, was sent to prison late on Wednesday, according to Turkish media. Terkoğlu was reportedly put in pre-trial detention over his reports regarding the 34 Turkish soldiers who were killed in airstrikes in Syria’s Idlib on Thursday. He was detained by Turkish police in a house
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Barış Terkoğlu, the news director of the Oda TV news portal, was detained by Turkish police in a house raid early on Wednesday morning, according to journalist Barış Pehlivan. “Oda TV’s news director, my frined, journalist Barış Terkoğlu was detained by police in a house raid in the wee hours of the morning, just like
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