There were 314,502 inmates in Turkish prisons as of March 31, meaning that Turkey has the sixth largest prison population in the world, following the US, China, Brazil, India and the Russian Federation.
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[Analysis] Turkey forces political prisoners to the admission of guilt in order to benefit from parole
As a last-ditch attempt to defraud victims of their dignity, parole boards force political prisoners to confess their being “terrorists” and implicate others.
[Analysis] Turkey abuses anti-terror laws to suppress critics
Statistics highlight that Turkish public prosecutors have filed more than 450,000 charges under Article 314 of the Turkish Penal Code within the last nine-years. What is worse, between 2016 and 2021 more than 310,000 individuals have been sentenced for membership of an armed terrorist organisation.
[Blogpost] Pushbacks: A Core Element of Policies Against Irregularised Mobility and Asylum
The EU and member states are consolidating the practice of pushbacks to prevent unauthorised entrants from crossing their borders and/or submitting asylum applications.
[Analysis] Death in prison: the case of 3 Turkish lawyers
Fethi Un, Murat Korkmaz and Metin Yucel were nothing but lawyers. They were unlawfully identified with their clients and targeted. They were arrested and whilst in detention treated -in late Fethi Un’s own words- “worse than an animal” and their lives were stolen. Let us hope that no other prisoner shares the same fate.
[Analysis] Turkey’s rotten criminal justice system: The case of drug and extortion ring run by a prosecutor and police officers
“Not the first time a police officer turns bad”, one might think. .“Just another bad apple”. It would perhaps be considered as such, if the police officer in question was not from the narcotics unit and previously decorated for his efforts during a successful drug operation and the car, he was driving did not belong to a public prosecutor from the Terrorism Bureau of the Office of Adana Chief Public Prosecutor.