11 days in solitary confinement for Kurdish poems in Bafra prison

The Prison Administration's Disciplinary Board justified the decision on the grounds that the poems contained the political and ideological content of the PKK.

Enes İlgen and Serdar Başaran in Bafra T Type Prison were sentenced to 11 days in solitary confinement on the grounds of Kurdish poems they wrote in their notebooks.

Lawyers from the Human Rights Association (IHD) and Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) learned about the solitary confinement sentences given to prisoners during their visit to Bafra T Type Prison.

Prisoners who met with lawyers stated that the prison administration raided the wards on 6 June and that Kurdish poems in the notebooks of Enes İlgen and Serdar Başaran were used as a justification for solitary confinement. Two prisoners were given 11 days of disciplinary penalty on 15 August.

According to the lawyers, the Prison Administration's Disciplinary Board justified the decision on the grounds that the poems contained the political and ideological content of the PKK.

The lawyers stated that the prisoners appealed the decision.