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"Even if I die here, I will leave with my honor intact. I won’t leave in any other way. Everyone should know that the will of a revolutionary who has dedicated his entire life to the freedom of his people cannot be broken," says Yıldırım.

Fifteen prisoners have been conducting an hunger strike against what they describe as extreme isolation in Turkey's new "high-security" prisons.

“There is a direct connection between prison overcrowding and the state’s penal policies,” says Hürrem Sönmez, secretary general of the İstanbul Bar Association

The Human Rights Association identified over 1,400 ill prisoners, including more than 300 classified as severely ill.

The prisoner’s lawyer likened his client’s situation to that of MP-elect Can Atalay, who was not released despite a Constitutional Court ruling, after lower courts refused to comply.

The AKP regime's prison policies are the product not only of a logic of punishment, but also of a practice of establishing a political and social order. Therefore, to think about prisons is to talk not only about prisoners, but also about the limits of our freedom.

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.

A 32-year-old inmate who was recently imprisoned was reportedly hospitalized after a heart attack and was returned to the prison after treatment.