Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Van MP Tayip Temel brought the rights violations in Erzurum Dumlu No. 1 High Security Prison to the agenda of the Parliament.

Temel, who submitted a parliamentary question to the Turkish Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdağ, underlined that prisons are places where violations of rights are most common. Reminding that prisoners continue to die due to illness and other issues, the motion said: "There are many violations of rights such as deportations, torture and ill-treatment, isolation, obstacle to seeing families, denial of communication rights, and unfair disciplinary investigations."

The motion included a letter sent by a prisoner from Erzurum Dumlu High Security Prison No. 1 to Temel. “New violations of rights are added every day. Although there are iron bars on the windows of the wards, the prisoner who wrote the letter said that additional wire fences were installed on the windows on 3 November 2022. The prisoner said: ‘Living 22.5 hours a day, deprived of daylight, under artificial lighting, reveals the 'inhumanity' we are subjected to in a striking way.’”

Noting that he talked to the 2nd director of the prison on the phone, Temel said: “In the phone call we made, we were informed that wire fences were attached to the windows as a requirement of the High Security Prison project and within the knowledge of the ministry. It is an inhuman and degrading isolation practice, which goes against the purpose of the law of execution and aims to completely break the person's relationship with society. Your Ministry should immediately put an end to the application of wire mesh on the ward windows. On the other hand, a report was taken about the prisoners who objected to this practice. It was written in the minutes that the slogans 'Down with the Republic of Turkey, down with the government, freedom for Demirtaş' were shouted. However, the prisoner stated that they did not shout these slogans and stated that their life was in danger.