Many prisoners in prisons are on hunger strike demanding the closure of R, Y, S and High Security Prisons, the end of the transfer practice, the release of seriously ill prisoners and their transfer to prisons where their friends are. 9 prisoners in different prisons continue their hunger strike.

 

Sercan Ahmet Arslan 183 days, Mulla Zincir 159 days, Serkan Onur Yılmaz 162 days and Ayberk Demirdöğen 42 days in Antalya High Security Prison. In Sincan High Security Prison, Baki Can Işık 123 days, Mithat Öztürk 67 days, Hasan Ali Akgül and Ali Aracı 62 days. Fikret Akar, who is in Çorlu High Security Prison in Tekirdağ, continues his hunger strike on the 22nd day.

 

On the other hand, Yurdagül Güneş, the mother of prisoner Baki Can Işık, entered the 110th day of her hunger strike in support of her son's demands.

 

 

Semiha Eyilik, a member of the Association for Solidarity with the Families of Convicts (TAYAD), said that well-type prisons are built to destroy people.

 

'IT LEADS TO DEATH'

 

Semiha Eyilik said, "The governments attack prisons first. The attacks on prisons are like a rehearsal for the attacks outside. Whenever there are heavy attacks on prisons, heavy attacks on the people outside also begin. They want to silence the revolutionaries who are the vanguards of the people. Well-type prisons are one of these tools of oppression. Ill prisoners are being murdered in prisons. Since the government thought that it could not get results from F-type prisons, it implemented well-type prisons. They built R-type prisons for sick prisoners, whom they said 'we will rehabilitate'. Instead of releasing sick prisoners, they aimed to treat them in prisons. There, they handcuff the unaccompanied patient to the bed and leave them in harsher conditions. The prisons they built with the aim of rehabilitation turn into torture and lead to the killing of ill prisoners inside. They have built the S and Y type prisons as prisons where they will put more aggravated political prisoners and 'terror' criminals. They think that people with the status of 'dangerous prisoners' should stay in such prisons. However, it is not clear how the status of 'dangerous prisoner' is determined."

 

'ORIENTATED TOWARDS EXTERMINATION'

 

Semiha Eyilik stated that the well-type prisons are built with an isolation architecture in order not to see the human face and that there is no ventilation system in the cells. Semiha Eyilik added: "These prisons are three-storey prisons. S-type prisons are built in such a way that prisoners cannot see the sun. They are called well-type prisons because they cannot see the sun and the sky. In F-type prisons, there is a door and a window opening to the ventilation. So you can get air. But there is no glass in S, R, Y type prisons and especially in Y type. Even if there is glass, not even your finger can pass through it and no one can see you from outside. You cannot come into contact with the rain, your breathing is more limited and you cannot go out for ventilation. There is no ventilation in the cell and you can get air by being taken to another place. They are called well-type prisons because it is a system aimed at destroying prisoners. Prisoners do not want to stay in well-type prisons. What offence does he commit that makes him a 'dangerous prisoner', Do prisoners have to come to the border of death for their demands to be accepted?"