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Life in isolation is based on infinite repetition. Every day is a copy of the one before. Imagine living the same day repeatedly for 10, 20, even 30 years. You begin to feel as though you’re suspended in time, your sense of time slowly eroding.

Imprisoned for 25 years, Abdullah Öcalan's last known contact with the outside world was three and a half years ago, when he had a disrupted phone call with his brother.

Some prisoners brought to Konya from various prisons across the country were put in single-person cells.

Subjected to solitary confinement in Metris and Silivri prisons, journalist Ahmet Şık hasn’t been given drinking water for three days in Metris Prison.

Diyarbakır Metropolitan Co-Mayors Kışanak and Anlı, and KJA Term Spokesperson Ayla Akat Ata have been transferred to Kocaeli F Type Prison from Diyarbakır and are being kept in one-person cells.