Hundreds of children living in Turkish prisons
Last year it was a profitable January morning in Istanbul, a 32-year-old primary school teacher and two mothers.
He couldn't make it to his front door before he was besieged by seven police officers accused of membership of a terrorist organization and handcuffed. Two months after his imprisonment, Ayşe joined the back of the barn, the youngest son Ali.
He said his life lived like a horror movie. Ayse, to keep 10 people, and her cell, 23 of them full of prisoners, she said. He remembers that babies who don't get the vaccine burn them with hot tea. He remembers traumatic crying at night.
Kamp In the mornings I listened to loud music from my dorm in the mornings, dan Fox said in an interview at the opening of a refugee camp in Greece. Di The ward was a very dangerous place for children. Our bunk was iron. A baby mermaid and learning to hit her head pretty badly, the other kids were screaming. It was an incredibly difficult time. "
Ayse and her youngest son Ali remained in a Turkish prison for months before fleeing to Greece
Ayse and Ali are very unique. Based on monitoring government decrees and other reports from official sources , by the end of August 2017, advocacy groups emphasized that they were kept in prison with their mother from 668 children aged 6 years. And 23 percent of these young people were babies under one year of age.
Several thousand children between the ages of 6-18 are also being held.
Turkey Ministry of Justice, a total of 6 years with their mother in Turkey's 560 prisons that kept biological indicating gave a slightly lower figures.
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The mothers and their statement continue to meet with thousands of Turks at the end of the coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in July 2016. Country, since this initiative, the government in exile meeting Fethullah Gulen and his movement by allowing service to imprison anyone who believed the bonds depends on a legal "emergency" was a state.
Regardless of the number of prisoners, eni there is no prison for children in any civilized country, ols he said. Alan Mendoza:: To blame yaşam a justice transvestite isi who will be living their innocent life in their lives.
Other critics of Turkey's policy, women prisoners and noted that they are victims of guilt by association children.
“For women who have been arrested since the failed coup, it is the date for women, some of whom are not suspicious of their spouses or children. This comes through collective punishment, Bu he said. Merve Tahiroğlu, research analyst who is a non-partisan, national security center institution in Washington.
Peace and Justice Platform
Turkey-based human rights monitoring group with Belgium-based Peace and Justice Platform (PPJ), Tok director of Uganda, remain in prison centers in the center can be detained for six to 10 months. By the way,
”The government is preventing prisoners from accessing lawyers and files for the advocate“.
Summary According to the World Prison, in October last year, women accounted for 4.4 percent of Turkey's prison population. The number of official women behind bars is less than 10,000, but Tok, the number is estimated to be as high as 17,000.
Contact Nurhayat directly
27-year-old twins, a housewife waiting Nurhayat Star, August 29, 2016, Sinop in northern Turkey on a bus to the city of Sinop went to 14-week examination. Nurhayat was taken into custody and charged with membership in the Service - there was a popular cryptic messaging application, ByLock, on his phone, as requested. The Turkish government believes that the members of the coup attempt by ByLock has established international communication, and although the members of the application have already existed, the systematically owned management systematically has been completed.
Yildiz's supporters say they weren't in the phase of the application. Its case, 19 weeks, then 6 years in October, first-time mothers behind bars in an interview that you want in a devastating fall yaşadı. Fox News, recently in California who fled and for the safety of their relatives who requested anonymity that Washington, in Silent while Turkey. He is a leading Turkish jurist with his lawyers (AST)
”Nurhayat lost his dreams,“ he said. Konuşuy And now he's doing tremendous psychological things, he just barely speaks. He never lived the twins. "
Then there are stories of Filiz Yavuz, who was suddenly arrested - taken to a wheelchair - only eight hours after the birth in a maternity hospital in Southeast Mersin on 7 February 2017.
More than 600 children in prisons
The Turkish authorities consistently advocated the widespread arrest and detention of the Turkish citizen, including women and children, which are vital for national security. They also insist that detainees are held in accordance with international law.
World Red Cross Committee (ICRC), were unable to verify that monitor the presence and status in Turkey at the moment.
However, this situation continues to be a source of concern for the human rights group in order to emphasize routinely arbitrary detention of Turkish citizens.
On Achieving the coup attempt in July 2016 has detained tens of thousands of people. At the time Amnesty International examined it, he stated that you had no knowledge of the criminal activities in the case.
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