Prisoner with cancer lost his life
Prisoner with cancer lost his life
PKK prisoner Nurettin Soysal lost his life at 10 April night at Ankara University Medical Faculty where he had been receiving treatment since his release in late 2010 which was achieved by the attempts of his family and human rights defenders.
Soysal, who was held in Diyarbakýr, Adýyaman and Muþ prisons for 16 years, suffered from lymph cancer for many years as he was prevented from receiving treatment by Forensic Medicine Institute doctors who each time sent Sosyal back, saying to Come back later. As Soysal's disease had already progressed by the time he was released, doctors recently reported that Soysal had only six months left.
PKK prisoner Soysal was on 10 April afternoon buried in his hometown, Soyhan district of Bingöl.
Seventy five year old prisoner Mahmut Karataþ in the same way lost his life on 3 April in Bingöl M Type Closed Prison since he wasnt released despite his advanced diabetic and blindness in both eyes. Although Karataþ was suffered from impairment of consciousness, it came into light that doctors didn't treat him, claiming that "he didn't agree to receive treatment".
In a press statement in the Parliament on 9 April, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputy Ýdris Baluken remarked that thirty one sick prisoners in Turkey lost their lives in 2011. Baluken, noting that over 900 prisoners have lost their lives in prison in the last ten years, said the followings;
"The mindset of the AKP evaluates the release of 520 extremely sick prisoners as a political event that interrupts advanced democracy. However, holding sick prisoners in severe prison conditions which couldn't be tolerated even by healthy people, leaving them to death in other words, should be evaluated as a critical shame against humanity that cannot be approached from a political view."
Soysal, who was held in Diyarbakýr, Adýyaman and Muþ prisons for 16 years, suffered from lymph cancer for many years as he was prevented from receiving treatment by Forensic Medicine Institute doctors who each time sent Sosyal back, saying to Come back later. As Soysal's disease had already progressed by the time he was released, doctors recently reported that Soysal had only six months left.
PKK prisoner Soysal was on 10 April afternoon buried in his hometown, Soyhan district of Bingöl.
Seventy five year old prisoner Mahmut Karataþ in the same way lost his life on 3 April in Bingöl M Type Closed Prison since he wasnt released despite his advanced diabetic and blindness in both eyes. Although Karataþ was suffered from impairment of consciousness, it came into light that doctors didn't treat him, claiming that "he didn't agree to receive treatment".
In a press statement in the Parliament on 9 April, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputy Ýdris Baluken remarked that thirty one sick prisoners in Turkey lost their lives in 2011. Baluken, noting that over 900 prisoners have lost their lives in prison in the last ten years, said the followings;
"The mindset of the AKP evaluates the release of 520 extremely sick prisoners as a political event that interrupts advanced democracy. However, holding sick prisoners in severe prison conditions which couldn't be tolerated even by healthy people, leaving them to death in other words, should be evaluated as a critical shame against humanity that cannot be approached from a political view."
