MERSİN – There are 80 ill prisoners in prisons in the Mediterranean Region. IHD member lawyer Muammer Derince said that preventing the release of prisoners is “de facto execution”. 

 

Following the Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan's "Call for Peace and Democratic Society" announced on 27 February, the release of ill prisoners has once again come to the agenda, but there has still been neither a statement nor a step from the government wing. 

 

According to the latest report of the Human Rights Association (IHD), there are 1 thousand 412 ill prisoners in prisons, at least 335 of them seriously ill.

 

It is learned that the number of ill prisoners in Antalya, Burdur and Mersin prisons in Mediterranean Region is 80.

 

18 ILL PRISONERS IN MANAVGAT S TYPE PRISON

 

It is recorded that 18 ill prisoners in Manavgat S Type Closed Prison have various diseases such as goitre, heart problems, herniated disc, diabetes.

 

The names of the ill prisoners in prison are as follows: "Neslihan Çetin, Dilan Yörüklü, Laleş Çeliker, Tuba Sert, Leyla Atabey, Hatice Çakmak, Yusuf Şahin, Nimet Kuşlu, Ekrem Muhammed Hamudi, İbrahim Ertaş, Nesip Tarım, İsmail Çabuk, Mehmet Mahsum Kahraman, Ömer Urum, Mahmut Kaygun, Ramazan Sayan, Çetin Sağır, Erhan Arslan."

 

18 ILL PRISONERS IN ANTALYA HIGH SECURITY PRISON

 

It was noted that 18 ill prisoners in Antalya High Security Prison (YGC) have similar health problems. The names of the prisoners are as follows: "Zeki Elçi, Nusret Saltan, Mehmet Ayaz, Mervan Demirtaş, Mehmet Emin Töre, Ekrem Altay, Mehmet Sait Alptekin, Emrah Abi, Vedat Aydın, Emrah Nebioğlu, Vedat Bazar, Mehmet Resul Öztuğ, Abdullah Güven, Ahmet Kolakan, Kemal Demirbaş, Birdal Dere, Ebedin Abi, Faysal Encü."

 

17 ILL PRISONERS IN ANTALYA S TYPE PRISON

 

The names of some ill prisoners held in Antalya S Type Closed Prison are as follows: "Abdulhalim Özdemir, Burhan Barut, Burhan Güneş, Devrim Ayık, Eshet Dalkılıç, Eyüp Kılıç, Hasan Kater, Mehmet Nimet Yılmaz, Mehmet Zahit Şahin, Murat Türk, Orhan Şahin, Ömer Deniz, Ramazan Aksu, Recep Polatlı, Resul Ertaş, Seyithan Karahan, Uğur Boztaş."

 

27 ILL PRISONERS IN BURDUR AND MERSIN

 

The ill prisoners held in Burdur High Security Prison are as follows: "Behruz Şucayi, Yılmaz Yüksel, Şiyar Fırat, Orhan Kara, Mahmut Aslan, Rıdvan Çelik, Süleyman Altun, Mahir Binici, Naif Özkılıç, Abdullah Ateş, Abdülaziz Yılmaz, Tarık Alıcı, Hamdusena Ada, Ozan Bektaş, Mehmet Yıldırım, Erhan Kaya, Abdullah Hönül, Habil Emen, Ahmet Oğuz, Ömer Çelik, İsa İpekli, Mehmet Hüseyin Maral."

 

'ACTUAL DEATH PENALTY'

 

 

Speaking about the situation of ill prisoners, lawyer Muammer Derince, spokesperson of IHD Mersin Branch Prison Commission, said that legal mechanisms for releases have been rendered dysfunctional. Derince stated that the main responsibility for the lack of releases despite hospital reports lies with the Forensic Medicine Institution (ATK), Administrative and Observation Boards (IGK) and the Presidency, and described the prevention of releases for political reasons as "de facto execution". Underlining that the deficiencies in the health system aggravate the situation, Derince called for responsibility, adding: "The obstacles to access to the tests performed by the prisoner when he/she goes to the hospital should be removed, family members or guardians should be able to access this information via e-government."

 

Pointing out that the right to access to health has been de facto abolished and this situation has serious consequences, Derince said that the practices in prisons have become a threat to the lives of ill prisoners. 

 

MA / Abdulkadir Ayten