Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center[1][2][3][4][5]
19 August 2022 Daily Human Rights Report
(08/176) Operations and Attacks…
It is learned from the news coverage of August 19, 2022 that, 2 militants died in a clash between the Turkish Armed Forces units and YJA-Star militants in the Tendürek Mountain in Ağrı on August 16, 2022.
(08/177) Person Died in Prison…
It is learned that Bazo Yılmaz, a 67-year-old ill prisoner died in Urfa T Type Closed Prison No. 2 on August 18, 2022. It is stated in the news reports that Bazo Yılmaz was dependent on an oxygen concentrator, was given the report of “available to stay in prison” by the Forensic Medicine Institution on February 8, 2021.
(08/178) Torture and Ill-Treatment in Prison…
It is learned from the news coverage of August 19, 2022 that, prisoner in Maraş Türkoğlu L Type Prison No. 1 were forced to be in handcuffs during medical examination and those who reject it were subjected to torture and ill-treatment of the correction officers and were put in solitary cells.
It is learned from the news coverage of August 19, 2022 that, 9 prisoners in Izmir Şakran T Type Prison were transferred to other prisons under coercion. The names of prisoners and which prisons they were transferred to are unknown.
It is learned from the news coverage of August 18, 2022 that, in Bayburt M Type Closed Women’s Prison, personal belongings of prisoners were scattered around and broken during ward searches, and that the prisoners have to pay high electricity bills and the prices at the prison commissary is high as well.
(08/179) Prevention of Right to Health in Prison…
It is learned from the news coverage of August 18, 2022 that, in Bayburt M Type Closed Women’s Prison were referred to hospitals with delay or not referred at all, the prisoners were forced to be in handcuffs and mouth in search during examination; and those who reject it were not treated.
(08/180) Hunger Strike in Prison…
It is learned from the news coverage of August 18, 2022 that, the Forensic Medicine Institute (ATK) gave a second report for Gökhan Yıldırım, who is on hunger strike in Tekirdağ F Type Prison No. 1 since December 25, 2021; stating that he can stay in an R type prison. The ATK has stated that Gökhan Yıldırım “must be followed up and treated under hospital conditions, and if his condition changes, he can be re-evaluated by sending a report showing his latest status” in its report on August 12, 2022. And the Tekirdağ Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has rejected the application for a postponement of the execution of Gökhan Yıldırım based on the ATK report and decided to keep Gökhan Yıldırım in Tekirdağ City Hospital.
(08/181) Meeting Request with Abdullah Öcalan Not Responded…
It is learned that the appeal made on August 18, 2022 to chief public prosecutor’s office in Bursa by the lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, in order to visit him was not responded.
It is learned that the appeal made on August 19, 2022 to chief public prosecutor’s office in Bursa by families and tutelary of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, and Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş in Imralı Prison, in order to visit them was not responded.
(08/182) Torture and Ill-Treatment Under Custody in Istanbul…
On August 13, 2022, the police intervened in the Justice Watch in front of Bahçelievler district office of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Istanbul on August 13, 2022, held for ill prisoners and detained 40 people. One of the detainees, a 17-year-old child (D. T.) stated the following to the press on August 18, 2022: “The police handcuffed us 3 or 4 times while detaining. Then they put us in the vehicle. We were subjected to insults by the police in the detention vehicle. When I reacted, they came to me and used violence. I asked the police to remove the handcuffs, they treated us arbitrarily, saying, ‘We can’t take it off because we were told to keep them’. Although they had the equipment to release us, they said they did not have and did not release the handcuffs. They kept us waiting. I asked the doctor for the report evidencing the violence but they said they would not give it to me and give it to the police. When I entered the Bahçelievler police station, they said they would conduct search. At first I did not say anything, I did not know what to do. They took me to a room without a camera and asked me to take off my clothes. I did not want to do so. Later, when the police came towards me, I had to take them off. I was subjected to strip search. At that moment, I felt very bad. It was not legal and I am not even an adult. (…) The police said to me, ‘Neither your family nor your lawyers can come here’. My family and my lawyer had no idea where I was. This is officially abduction. Because nobody knows where I was for hours (…) The prosecutor never recorded anything about that violence, about the strip search. After my statement was taken, my lawyer said, ‘We want to file a criminal complaint’, and they said that we could not file it there, we had to write a petition for it.”
(08/183) Torture and Ill-Treatment Under Custody in Istanbul…
It is learned that 4 people (The Socialist Party of the Oppressed [ESP] Istanbul provincial chair Hatice Deniz Aktaş, Ebru Yiğit, Mert Unay and Nurcan Gülbudak) who were detained in Sultangazi district of Istanbul on August 17, 2022, were subjected to strip search at the Anti-Terror Department of the Provincial Security Directorate.
(08/184) Threatened Parliamentary Member…
It is learned that Mehmet Sinan İnce, former lawyer of Abdullah Çatlı, who had claims about an assassination plot on HDP Diyarbakır MP Garo Paylan, threatened him with the following post on social media: “If we wanted to do it, we would. We did not want to make you a hero. Otherwise, we got you in front of us twice while walking, do not take on the victim language saying you survived by chance or something. This is Turkish land, know your place!”.
(08/185) Person Injured by Police Fire in Aydın…
It is learned from the news coverage of August 18, 2022 that, a person (Kemal G.) was injured at the leg by the fire opened by a police officer (Bayram K.) after a quarrel between them in Kuşadası district of Aydın. It is reported that the police officer was detained.
(08/186) Person Injured by Police Fire in Istanbul…
It is learned from the news coverage of August 18, 2022 that, a person (Hilmi U.) was injured at the leg by the fire opened by his police officer son (Emre U.) after a quarrel between them in Ataşehir district of Istanbul.
(08/187) Police Intervention Against “I Want My Job Back” Protest in Ankara…
The police intervened the press declaration which were made within the scope of “I Want My Job Back Protest” in front of Human Rights Monument in Yüksel Street on August 18, 2022 and forced people away from the monument by using physical violence.
(08/189) Detained ESP Executive and Members in Istanbul…
It is learned that 4 people (ESP provincial chair Hatice Deniz Aktaş, Ebru Yiğit, Mert Unay and Nurcan Gülbudak) are detained in Sultangazi district of Istanbul on August 17, 2022. It is reported that the detainees are restricted from seeing their lawyers for 24 hours.
(08/190) Removal of Banner in Şırnak…
It is learned from the news coverage of August 18, 2022 that, the banner about death of 55 people during the state of emergency in Şırnak in 1992, hung on the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) provincial office was removed by the police and HDP central district co-chair Kamuran Demir and district executives Ahmet Başak and Cihat Basan were called to make official statements.
(08/191) Ban of Access to Web Contents…
It is learned that 6 news reports about the cartoons of the President covered by the foreign media, published on https://www.diken.com.tr/ website are banned to access and ruled to be deleted on the grounds of violation of personal rights by Istanbul Anadolu Penal Court of Peace No. 1 on August 18, 2022.
It is learned that the news reports about the President’s son Bilal Erdoğan, published on https://www.birgun.net/, https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/ and https://t24.com.tr/ websites are banned to access and ruled to be deleted on the grounds of violation of personal rights by Istanbul Anadolu Penal Court of Peace No. 1 on August 18, 2022.
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