Political prisoner Bişar Yazıcı died of liver failure at the age of 52 in a hospital on Saturday. Jailed in the High Security Prison in Van province, Yazıcı was admitted to Dicle University Hospital in Amed (tr. Diyarbakır) after suffering liver failure two weeks ago. Since a request to appoint his son as guardian was rejected by the Turkish judiciary, Bişar Yazıcı had no one from his family by his side at the time of his death.

Kurdish prisoner Bişar Yazıcı came from a village in the Özalp district of Van. He had been in prison since 2021, serving a sentence of six years and three months imprisonment for alleged membership of a "terrorist" organisation. Several attempts by his lawyers to have the prison sentence suspended due to health issues failed.

Yazıcı's body was taken to the Forensic Medicine Department in Amed for an autopsy earlier today. He will be taken to the village of Çavuşlar in Özalp where he will be laid to rest.