A group of inmates in Ankara's Sincan F Type Prison No 1 were assaulted on 6 November for objecting to the placement of 24 hours active security cameras in the prison garden. Soldiers and wardens raided 13 wards and assaulted the prisoners after their protest against the cameras.

Prison officers later transferred two ill prisoners to one person cells, cancer patient Erol Zavar who is among the IHD's (Human Rights Association) list of ill prisoners in need of urgent release, and Serdar Polat who has been jailed since he was targeted by an armed attack of police forces in his house on 20 September, with his treatment having been suspended ever since.

Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Batman deputy Ayla Akat Ata has tabled a parliamentary question concerning two ill prisoners after she received a letter from Zavar telling about the inhuman treatments they are facing in the jail.

Ata commented the punishment of prisoners as the violation of the right of privacy and remarked that both ill inmates have further been denied food, cloth and medicine for the last two days.

Noting that the security camera imposition in Sincan F Type Prison exposed only a small part of the right violations witnessed in Turkish jails, addressed the following questions to the Ministry of Justice;

-For what reason are the prisoners,  who are already deprived of their basic rights and subjected to a restricted movement area, being monitored with security cameras?

-How many complaints has the Ministry of Justice received about the right violations in Turkish jails since 2002, and what is the distribution of these complaints by context and prisons?

-How many investigations have been launched against prison officers in relation to the right violations in jails? What is the reason and course of these investigations and what is their distribution by prisons?
 
-What is the distribution of the crimes and sentences given to the inmates held in prisons from where inmates have conveyed  to the Ministry of Justice their complaints on right violations?

-For what reason are the 60 inmates involved in the protest in Sincan F Type Prison No 1 being denied food, medicine and cloth for two days now?

-Which officials are responsible for endangering the life of ill prisoners by denying them medicine?

-Do the prison administrators make the decision themselves to subject inmates to torture? Are the inmates being subject to assaults and denied food and medicine within the knowledge of the Ministry of Justice?"