25-year-old political prisoner Kadri Ekici was "found dead" in a cell in Diyarbakır No-2 High Security Closed Prison on Thursday evening.

The body of Ekici was taken to Diyarbakır Gazi Yaşargil Training and Research Hospital’s morgue yesterday evening and handed over to his family from the Forensic Medicine Institute this morning.

Reports say that Ekici, imprisoned for alleged “membership in a terrorist organization”, was being kept in a single cell for the past one year.

While the Ekici family was told that their son had committed suicide, family members stated that they had last talked to him three days ago and everything was normal as the 25-year-old said that he was well. The family has suspicions about the circumstances of his death.

Ekici was laid to rest in the Yeniköy Cemetery in the central Bağlar district.