Report: There still 143 lawyers in Turkish prisons

In response to a parliamentary question of Mr Sezgin Tanrikulu, the Turkish Ministry of Justice announced the number of lawyers held in prison by years. According to the Ministry of Justice the number of lawyers remanded in pretrial detention by years as following: 354, 487, 169 and 143, respectively in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

from The Arrested Lawyers Initiative https://arrestedlawyers.org/2019/09/17/report-there-still-143-lawyers-in-turkish-prisons/