ONLINE-PETITION: Your Support is Needed

LAST THREE YEARS POLITICAL PRISONERS IN TURKEY ARE RESISTING AGAINST THE ISOLATION TYPE PRISONS CALLED S,R,Y-TYPE.

IN THESE PRISONS, SUNLIGHT, FRESH AIR AND HUMAN CONTACT ARE DENIED TO THE PRISONERS. 

THEY ARE ALLOWED TO GO TO THE EXERCISE YARD WHICH IS SLIGHTLY BIGGER THAN THEIR CELLS, FOR 1/1.5 HOUR PER DAY, BY THEMSELVES AND WHEN THEY LOOK UP THEY EVEN CANNOT SEE THE SKY! IT GIVES THE IMPRESSION OF LOOKING AT THE TOP OF A WATER WELL FROM THE BOTTOM. THIS IS THE REASON WHY PRISONERS CALL THESE PRISONS “WELL/PIT-TYPE PRISONS”…

To read the full text and sign the petition, please visit:

https://c.org/c2CmhGJdtq

UPDATE:

18.04.2026

The political prisoners Gürkan Türkoğlu, Tahsin Sağaltıcı and Hüseyin Özen—who have been on hunger strike for over 250 days in protest against isolation in the so-called S-, R- and Y-type prisons—have been forcibly transferred to the state hospital in Antalya.

We are deeply alarmed and have grave concerns that they are being subjected to forced medical intervention.