Fascist practices in Turkey under the AKP-MHP rule increased every passing day. The government, which has been collecting grievances over military tutelage for years and boasting about the end of that period, is imposing tortures that are reminiscent of the 12 September fascist junta in prisons as well as outside.

In one of these prisons, a political prisoner named Abdülkadir Bozkurt, who is in Tekirdağ No. 2 F Type Prison, said in his weekly phone conversation with his family that he has been held in a cell for three days and that the guards have thrown faeces at him. Serdar Bozkurt, spoke to ANF after speaking on the phone with his brother Abdülkadir Bozkurt.

Strip-searched and had faeces thrown at him

Bozkurt spoke to his jailed brother on 15 August. He said, "My brother Abdülkadir cried and cried, ‘Forgive me, I can’t stand it anymore,’ he said, adding that the prison director, psychologist and chief guard would be responsible for any bad thing that might happen to him. When I asked him what happened, he said that he was subjected to a strip search, put in a cage and had faeces thrown at him. When I asked him if he meant a cell by cage, he said emphatically that it was a wire cage, but he couldn’t go into detail because they cut off the phone call. He called again, they cut him off again. He called a third time, but they cut him off again. For this reason, he couldn’t fully describe the torture he was subjected to."

Prison psychologist doesn’t give any answer

Bozkurt said that the whole family heard the conversation because the phone was on loudspeaker and that his mother fainted. He said: "My mother screamed as if a funeral had broken out in the house. I called the prison immediately and asked for the name of the warden. They said they could not tell me. Then I spoke to the prison psychologist, who did not tell me his name either. When I reminded him that he was responsible for the treatment done to my brother, he first denied it and then blurted out, ‘We are currently holding a meeting for your brother.’ If there is nothing, if there is no problem, why are they holding a meeting for my brother then?"

It is like Diyarbakir prison no. 5

Bozkurt said that his brother was the victim of a false statement by an informant, and drew attention to the fact that he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and has been a prisoner for 14 years. Bozkurt added that his brother, who was only 18 years old when he entered prison, is now 32 years old. He said that, as if this injustice was not enough, he had also been kept in solitary confinement and tortured for years. Bozkurt said he also informed the DEM Party deputies and ÖHD lawyers about the situation, and added: "My brother rebelled and said that even faeces were thrown at him. Can you imagine? This is the practice used in military prisons during the 12 September 1980 military junta period. This is a practice that is no less than the torture in Diyarbakır Prison No. 5."

‘They stole his youth. I will not let them take his life!’

Bozkurt underlined that the director and psychologist of Tekirdağ No. 2 Prison would be responsible for anything bad that may happen to his brother, and said: "The prison director, psychologist and chief guard will be responsible. I have no hope or expectation from anywhere anymore. The state and the judiciary have already done the evil they were going to do to my brother. I will not allow my brother to be subjected to this torment and torture there. They had already stolen his youth. They will not be able to take his life."