The largest justice palace in the world is in our country: Istanbul Anatolian Palace of Justice.
And today Turkey has become a country forced to live in a semi-open prison system. While people who are imprisoned for expressing their opinions are kept under severe psychological pressure in “well-type” isolation, the efforts of the ruling and opposition chorus to lower the pulse rate with artificial rally performances are wearing out the patience.
Trying to soften the agenda by shouting “Ekrem down, Ekrem up” in the squares, Özel and his cohorts have turned into the most skillful players of “pretend” politics. At the same time, the gravest realities in prisons are being covered up, forgotten and pretended to be non-existent.
More interesting:
Ekrem İmamoğlu, against whom an indictment was issued with a demand for 2,300 years in prison, continues to tweet and design the main opposition.
But Selahattin Demirtaş and other thought criminals, who have been imprisoned for 9 years, can hardly continue their history-making efforts to exchange letters.
And the saddest:
Özgür Özel and Veli Ağbaba, who once served on prison commissions, and those who occupied those commissions for years, still come out today:
“They don't ask, ”This is a crime against humanity, why don't you answer?".
Because they didn't ask.
Let us tell you.
“Well Type”: An Isolation Scheme with No Sun, No Air, No Ventilation
There is a truth that Turkey has been avoiding talking about for a long time:
Well-type prisons.
Beyond isolation, the F-type is a dark structure that leads to mental and physical collapse...
There is no sun.
There is no ventilation.
No clock, no time, no place.
Cells where a person can't even see their own shadow.
CISST and İHD describe these structures as “an isolation regime that has turned into permanent torture”.
S and Y Type Prisons: New Generation Models of Isolation
After the F-types, S and Y-type prisons are now on the scene.
Type Y: Consists of single cells only.
Type S: Even harsher isolation; limited ventilation, constant camera surveillance, strip searches and constant physical-psychological pressure.
A common interpretation of human rights organizations:
“These structures are prison models that perpetuate isolation and rob people of their humanity.”
Turkey's Prison Picture: A Country of Isolation in Figures
In Turkey, according to the latest official data:
There are 402 prisons.
428,267 prisoners are held against a capacity of 304,886.
77.014 prisoners continue their education.
822 children between the ages of 0-6 grow up in prison with their mothers.
4,682 children aged 12-18 are in prison.
6,625 prisoners are over 65 years of age.
Prisoner food fee: 83 TL
Child subsistence fee: 150 TL
And death tolls that never drop below 100 people every year.
These figures show that the system has now reached a critical breaking point.
Politics“ False Effort to ”Breathe"
In the face of all this, the only thing the opposition does is this:
“There is a well in the middle, pass by” politics.
The scenario produced over the possibility of Ekrem İmamoğlu's arrest,
“By turning it into a debate on the ”F-type luxury room", the facts are carefully avoided from public attention.
But the truth is obvious and bitter:
There are well-type prisons in this country.
In this country, thought criminals are kept in isolation for years.
In this country, even children grow up behind bars.
And all politicians continue to pretend while these facts are happening.
Last Word
If human rights in a country have turned into such a grave situation,
If the political scene avoids reality and drowns the agenda with fake rallies,
If the well-type torture regime has become commonplace...
The problem is not only with the government.
The opposition, which keeps silent and forgets the truth, is also a partner in this picture.
And in such a country, Ahmet Kaya's words resonate again:
“The more humiliated you are, the better...”
Because the bigger the disgrace, the more visible the hidden truths become.