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Mothers and children suffer from overcrowding, sickness and neglect in İzmir’s Şakran Prison

March 29, 2022

A female inmate on Thursday said women and children in her ward in İzmir’s Şakran Prison were suffering from overcrowding, sickness and neglect, the...

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Mother of former military cadet says son’s cell lacks heating and warm water

March 23, 2022

Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of a former military cadet who is serving a life sentence for allegedly participating in an abortive putsch in Turkey...

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Conditions in Kayseri Bünyan and Tarsus prisons dismal, says parliamentary Human Rights Committee

January 20, 2022

The Turkish Parliament’s Human Rights Committee has said in a report that conditions in Tarsus and Kayseri Bünyan prisons were dismal and needed major...

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Heating system doesn’t work in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison despite freezing temperatures

November 24, 2021

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu in a Monday tweet criticized the worsening conditions in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison, saying the heating system doesn’t...

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