Violations of rights of prisoners continue. While the release of the prisoners is being delayed by the Prison Administration and Observation Boards, new violations such as isolation, access to health, torture and ill-treatment, strip searches are added every day.

Dilek Sönmez Demir, co-chair of the Marmara Association for Assistance to Families of Prisoners and Convicts (MA TUHAY-DER), spoke about the violations in prisons.

Demir pointed out the situation of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held in absolute isolation, and added that isolation is applied in all prisons. Underlining that the isolation has turned into a "systematic torture", Demir said: "Prisoners cannot meet with their families. Even if they do, we know that their visit rights are very limited. Their social activities are prevented in every way."

Demir said that there are more than 300 ill prisoners in the Marmara Region’s jails and added that many of them were not released despite receiving reports confirming that they "cannot stay in prison". Pointing out that the pressures in prisons increased after the elections, Demir said that the release of nearly 60 prisoners was prevented in the prisons in the Marmara Region alone.

Demir said: "The isolation imposed in prisons is also applied to the society. The families of prisoners will always expose isolation. In addition, civil society and rights organizations will always bring this up to the agenda. We will always promote solidarity. Because solidarity will not only break the isolation in prisons, but also end the aggravated isolation on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. Let's all join hands and break this isolation."