Advocate for Leader: Isolation means not resolving Kurdish issue

 The Prisoners Support Initiative (TDÎ) and Istanbul Human Rights Association Branch (ÎHD) organized a symposium at Nazem Hikmet House of Culture and Art in Şişli entitled "The Right to Equality and Hope for Implementation", where the first session of the symposium was entitled "Discrimination in the Law Enforcement System"  It was moderated by Attorney Jian Toson, and Attorney, Kolizar Tuncer, Kol Altay and Ibrahim Bilmez also participated as speakers.

Speaking before the session, the head of the Istanbul Human Rights Association (ÎHD) branch, Kolcern Yulri, referred to the 2022 report on violations in the prisons of the Marmara region, and said: “Violations against detainees are increasing day by day. There are many other violations, the first of which is the Right to  Life, as there is torture and ill-treatment. In these cases, 3 thousand violations were monitored this year, and detainees are isolated, and the isolation system is now permanent in prisons, and because of this, thousands of violations occur, and these violations are also carried out in category (  F) high security in Imrali, and 8443 violations were recorded in the prisons of the Marmara region in 2022.

Isolation has been imposed against hundreds of thousands of detainees in category (S) and (Y) prisons, and isolation is considered torture.  The number of detainees is increasing day by day. The number of those released under judicial supervision, has exceeded one million, and millions of people live under the threat of arrest.

 Lawyer Kulezar Tuncer also spoke about the maximum prison sentence and the right to hope, and said: "The state is approaching political detainees with a sense of "revenge", and this increased in the military coup on September 12, 1980, and with the coup, special trial methods entered into force. Now, there is great discrimination against detainees. This situation exists even against children who are arrested. These methods were later protected by the state of emergency (OHAL), especially in Kurdistan, as they are always in effect. When it comes to the Kurds, this discrimination increases even more  and all the amendments were issued later, but this distinction was taken as a basis and issued in this way, and reforms were made during the epidemic, but they distinguished between the judiciary and politicians. Athough their term of rule has ended, political prisoners are not released under the pretext that “their status is not  well,” and that distinction has long been made.

After the leader Abdullah Ocalan was brought to Imrali, the aggravated life system was introduced, and this punishment was implemented as a "worse punishment than the death penalty", and the law and penal system were issued only for the sake of the leader Abdullah Ocalan, and this also affected many detainees, and it was issued  This penal system was issued in 2002 and is valid for previous periods as well, as there is discrimination in this penal system, and the judicial detainees against whom this ruling was issued were released after a while, but the political detainees remained in prison “until death”, and isolation was applied at a level, for example  They are held in the cell for 23 hours, and it is forbidden to go to the common square and meet other detainees, as it is an application beyond the limits of humanity, and these detainees can meet their families only once every two week .

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