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carcere di Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır, Italy

carcere di Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır Prison (Turkish: Diyarbakır Cezaevi; Kurdish: Girtîgeha Amedê) is a prison located in the city of Diyarbakır, in southeastern Turkey. It was established in 1980 as an E-type prison by the Ministry of Justice. After the September 12, 1980 Turkish coup d'état, the facility was transferred t

o military administration and became a Martial Law Military Prison (Turkish: Sıkıyönetim Askeri Cezaevi). Control of the prison was returned to the Ministry of Justice on May 8, 1988. The capacity of Diyarbakır E-type Prison is 744. However, the prison is sometimes overcrowded. When the Human Rights Commission in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) visited the prison in October 1996 it had a capacity of 650 and was accommodating 942 prisoners. The Diyarbakır D-type prison, housing political prisoners, can hold 688 people. What has been called "the period of barbarity" (vahşet dönemi) or "the hell of Diyarbakır" (Diyarbakır cehennemi), refers to the early and mid-1980s (in particular the years between 1981 and 1984) where the prisoners in the newly built Diyarbakır Military Prison No. 5 were exposed to systematic torture. Between 1981 and 1984, 34 prisoners died. According to The...

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