The Human Rights Association (IHD) carries out the Peace Vigil on the first Friday of every month.

İHD Co-Chair Öztürk Türkdoğan said: “The Forensic medicine institution should not be discriminatory, comprehensive reports of state hospitals should be taken as a basis. It is very important to release sick prisoners during peace processes. There are too many political prisoners in prisons. Arrangements for sick prisoners will bring peace, equality, justice and freedom.”

IHD Ankara Branch Co-Chair Fatin Kanat said: “According to the statistics of the Ministry of Justice on December 1, 2022, there are 336,315 detainees and convicts in Turkish prisons. Among these people, the number of people aged 65 and over is 5,513 people. According to the İHD Prisons Commission, there are 1,517 ill prisoners in Turkish prisons, of whom at least 651 are in serious condition.”

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Parliamentary Human Rights Investigation Commission member Fatma Kurtulan said: “Executions must be postponed as soon as possible for effective treatment of sick prisoners. All sick prisoners should be released as soon as possible.”

Ayşe Uğurlu, a member of the ATO Human Rights Commission, said: “People die before they can be released or shortly after they are released, since the final reports come out of the forensic medicine institution. We think that prisons should respect accountability.”

SES Ankara Branch Co-Chair Kubilay Yalçınkaya said: “The Ministry of Health should play a role by adopting the necessary principles and international conventions. Access to health should be provided in a holistic way.”

Münibe Koç from Peace Mothers Assembly said: “If the isolation is lifted, peace will come, and sick prisoners will get better. If the isolation is not lifted, the conditions of the prisons will not improve. The problems of prisons are related to isolation and peace.”