solidarity with Grup Yorum members in prison in Turkey

Dear comrades,

As you all know, 11 Grup Yorum members are in prison. As being done for all our prisoners, they are also continuously being attacked by the prison administration and the guardians.

The Turkish government violates almost all rights of the prisoners. They threaten the prisoners to wear uniform clothes. And for 1.5 years, our prisoners have been in a general resistance.

These situations cause diseases for the prisoners. One of the sick prisoners is Dilan Poyraz, who is also member of Grup Yorum.

Below is a news about what had happened in Silivri prison, and Dilan's disease, with the words from Dilan's father Ali Poyraz.

(A recent news, many prisoners in Silivri, including Dilan Poyraz, have been exiled to different prisons.)

With solidarity...

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Ali Poyraz, the father of Grup Yorum’s member Dilan: “Blood is coming out of the mouth and the nose of my daughter.”

The mother of Dilan, the Grup Yorum’s member whose nose and mouth bleed, suffered pancreas and lung cancer. Dilan is experiencing the same symptoms as her mother did.

“The other day I went to the open visit. Six days ago they discharged my daughter from the hospital. The blood is coming out of her nose and mouth. During the open visit, I took my daughter’s hand, I put my hands on her cheeks and she was burning like fire. In the hospital they did only a superficial examination”, said Dilan’s father when he went to the prison visit two days ago.

We spoke with Ali Poyraz (48), the father of the arrested Grup Yorum member Dilan Poyraz (22) about the circumstances of his daughter’s health. He said that he is worried for the health of his daughter and that she was not being taken to the hospital with excuses such as: “The vehicle didn’t come” or “Currently there are no soldiers”. Poyraz mentioned he was able to see his daughter only for 15 minutes when he went to the visit, and added: “My daughter took the side of the people that suffer injustice. The system sees her as a terorist. Yesterday she stood by the journalists, today she stands by the miners. My daughter came back and stood by the turban wearing people who suffered injustice. I am proud of my daughter.”

Poyraz explained that her wife has pancreas and lung cancer and stated: “At the beginning, juast as Dilan my wife as well threw up blood. They have the same symptoms. That’s what’s the most frightening for us. I want my daughter to be released and provided with a medical threatment. Grup Yorum’s member Dilan Ekin is by my daughter’s side. She also suffers from stomach pain and has a risk of remaining paralysed. They must provide treatment for all sick prisoners, immediately.

“Diagnostics and treatment is not possible under this conditions”

In the letter from Silivri Prison Dilan Poyraz she stated that the bleeding from her mouth and nose from her started and requested immediate transfer to the hospital and blood analysis. The results have still not arrived. “I experience difficulty breathing. My sleep cycle has been impaired. Under this conditions correct diagnostics and treatment are not possible. For example, if that day the soldier does not come, you cannot go to the medical examination or if the soldier does not step out of the room, you cannot get examined”, she said.