At least 9 imprisoned cancer patients in need of immediate health care assistance

At least nine people who suffer from cancer related complications  and thus are in need of immediate health care assistance are being held in Turkish prisons over a variety of trumped-up terror charges, including alleged membership in the Gulen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016.

The group denies any involvement.

What follows is the full list and the details of the patients who remain incarcerated despite health reports attesting to their poor health:

1- Gürbüz Dönmez, Şakran prison

2- Ahmet Dizlek, Kandıra prison

3- Ahmet Zeki Özkan, Antalya prison

4- Yusuf Özmen, Erzurum prison

5- Hakan Kanat, Kırşehir prison

6- Gülden Aşık, Balıkesir prison

7- Fatıma Babacan, Afyon prison

8- Ahmet Polat Önel, Kandıra prison

9- Havva Dönmez, Edirne prison

Since the beginning of the purge in Turkey in the aftermath of the failed July 15 coup attempt, at least half of million people have been investigated while over 96,000 others have been jailed due to alleged links to the Gülen group.  The purge has resulted in a drastic increase of political prisoners in Turkish prisons, some of whom are severely ill.

According to the Human Rights Association (İHD), there are more than 1,605 sick prisoners in Turkish prisons, approximately 604 of whom are critically ill. Although most of the seriously ill patients have forensic and medical reports deeming them unfit to remain in prison, they are not released. Authorities refuse to release them on the grounds that they pose a potential danger to society. In the first eight months of 2020, five critically ill prisoners passed away because they were not released in time to receive proper medical treatment.

Since April 2020, four seriously ill prisoners over the age of 70 have died in penal institutions; five inmates suffering from cancer died shortly after they were released; and 16 died of chronic illnesses while imprisoned.

9- Fatıma Babacan – Afyon prison.
A Turkish woman who suffers from thyroid cancer, has been in Afyon prison since September 2018. She has been sentenced to 9 years in prison on terror, coup charges. pic.twitter.com/cqXRsvM48Y

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