MARDİN - The reactions against ‘one-type uniform’ practice legalized in prisons by last declared statutory decree are  increasing. Stating that the pressures in the prisons should come to an end as soon as possible, Şükriye Doğan, whose two sons are in prison, said, “They arrest them unjustly and they impose ‘one-type uniform on them’. This is not fair, no one accepts this.”

 

‘One-type uniform’ practice, which was came to the agenda by AKP General President Tayyip Erdoğan on July 2017, was legalized by the last  declared statutory decree. In contrast, the prisoners in Turkey and in Kurdistan made a resistance call refusing to go non-contact visit during a month.

 

‘The pressures are increasing day by day’

 

Şükriye Doğan, whose one of her son in Afyonkarahisar E Type Prison and her other son is in Şakran T Type Prison, said that the increased pressure is injustice. Şükriye stated that his 22-year-old son in Afyon hag celiac disease and he has lost 15 kg in total in prison where he has been arrested for three years. Stating that her son hasn’t been taken to the hospital for four months although her son asked for it, Şükriye said that her son’s medicines, which he need to use them, are not given him. Saying that she can see her son every two months because her son was sent out, Şükriye underlined that ‘one-type uniform’ practice after the exile policies is not acceptable.

 

Şükriye also said, “We can talk to each other only on phone. I even couldn’t speak with my son, who stays in İzmir, this week. The prisoners in İzmir also took a decision to not to go to visit. They also gave him a communication penalty. I am very curious about both. The pressures in Afyon are incommunicably bad.The prisoners there are being beaten constantly. People come from long-distances but they reduced the visit to half hour. Their wards are raided every day. We also are being under these pressures when we go to free visitation.”

 

‘We are behind our children’

 

Emphasizing that they will stand by the prisoners against ‘one-type uniform’ practice and the pressures, Şükriye said, “We, as families won’t accept this practice. We are behind our children. They arrest them unjustly and they impose ‘one-type uniform on them. What kind of justice is this? No one accepts this. They do their best to make prisoners feel distressed. The prisoners don’t accepts this neither do we.”