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The isolation circumstances of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Leader Öcalan in İmralı Prison has been brought to Parliament.
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı Representative Berdan Öztürk has asked in the parliamentary question submitted to the response of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, “Why does Öcalan not possess the rights awarded by law which every arrested and convicted hold?”.
Nasrullah Kuran and Çetin Aktaş, primarily imprisoned in İmralı Prison, had been deported to Silivri Prison and were not allowed to talk to their lawyers afterwards.
Öztürk has also asked about the reason of the deportation and the duration.
Restriction to visits by lawyers, board and committee
In the parliamentary question, it has also been noted that Öcalan was prohibited from meeting his lawyers although they had been applying every single week since July 27, 2011 and asked about the reasons for this practice.
Öcalan has been prohibited from seeing his family and friends since October 6, 2014 and he as well as three others in the prison are being restrained from exercising their rights to phone call awarded by law.
Also the İmralı visit by İmralı Committee within the scope of the solution process had been hindered on April 5, 2015.
| İmralı Prison | |
As required by Ministry of National Defence notice issued in the Official gazette dated February 27, 1999, İmralı Island and surroundings had been declared second-degree land, sea, air prohibited military zone. Authorization for all operations regarding the İmralı Prison had been withdrawn from the Ministry of Justice and resigned to Mudanya Pier Crisis Contact Office on behalf of the Crises Management Center which later consigned the administration of İmralı Prison based upon the Prime Ministry Crisis Management Center Regulations to Prime Ministry Crisis Management Center. Along with the amends made in 2009, the prison had been granted the status of F-type High Security Closed Institution for the Execution of Sentences and subordinated to the Ministry of Justice. The new construction of the prison embodies six F-type cells opening to single-person yards and three others to common yards. Following the change, the group of the convicted consisting of five persons has been sent to the island. |
Human Rights Investigation Commission of Grand National Assembly
Following questions were included in the parliamentary question:
| Solution process, also known as the Kurdish–Turkish peace process, is an ongoing peace process, which aims to resolve the Kurdish–Turkish conflict. The conflict has been ongoing since 1984 and resulted in some 40,000-100,000 mortal casualties and great economic losses for Turkey as well as high damage to the Kurdish population. Though there was a unilateral cease-fire between 1999 and 2004, the sides failed to gain understanding and the conflict became increasingly violent. The 2013 truce was working until September 2014, when it ended due to spillover of the Syrian Civil War. Source: Wikipedia |
* Why does Öcalan not possess the rights awarded by law which every arrested and convicted hold?”
* Why are the internal regulations of İmralı Prison not being delivered though demanded by the attorneys several times?
* Does or will your government have any preparation, order or attempt for sending a delegation from the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) Human Rights Investigation Commission to İmralı with regards to human rights violations experienced and to observing the circumstances on site? (AS/DG)
