The Supreme Court convicted 38-year–old Hatice Batu, a mother of eight, of “being member of an illegal organization” and sent her to Urfa Prison with her two children aged four and seven. According to the conviction, she is going to serve six years and three months sentence in prison.

She was being tried for attending a celebration for Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan’s birthday in Aligor-Urfa on April, 4 2007.