Prisoners sentenced 11 days solitary cell for poetry in Kurdish

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ANKARA - Prisoners Enes İlgen and Serdar Başaran in Bafra Type T Prison were sentenced to 11 days in solitary cell for Kurdish poems and songs in their notebooks.
 
Enes İlgen and Serdar Başaran, who are being held in Bafra Type T Prison, were sentenced to 11 days in solitary cell due to Kurdish poems they wrote in their notebooks. 
 
Lawyers from Human Rights Association (IHD) and Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) visited the prisoners during their visit to Bafra Type T Prison. Prisoners who met with the lawyers stated that the prison administration raided the wards on June 6, Kurdish poems in the notebooks of Enes İlgen and Serdar Başaran were used as a justification for solitary cell and that the two prisoners were given 11 days of disciplinary punishment on August 15. 
 
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The Prison Administration's Disciplinary Board Presidency made the following statements in the justification of the decision, regarding the punishment given for “conducting and having the education and propaganda activities of criminal organizations” it was stated: “In the information note prepared and translated with the letter of Bafra Chief Public Prosecutor's Office dated 07/08/2024 and numbered 2024/2855 regarding the notes found during the partial search on 06/06/2024; When the handwritten Kurdish writings in the notebook copies were examined, it was evaluated that they consisted of poems, song lyrics and anthems in Kurdish language, that the said poems, song lyrics and anthems contain the political and ideology of the PKK terrorist organization, in this respect, it was evaluated that they were written with the aim of increasing the morale motivation of the members of the PKK/KCK terrorist organization and the sympathizing mass in the Prison Administration Institution, recruiting and expanding the base, giving morale to the convicts/detainees, keeping their determination to act alive, ensuring the continuity of the organization's unity and maintaining their current ideology. ”
 
The lawyers also stated that the prisoners have appealed the decision to the Execution Judgeship.
 

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