
Photos taken after the death of former Deputy Police Chief Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu, who was previously removed from his job and arrested due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement and was found dead in a quarantine cell in the prison where he had been kept for four years, lay bare the conditions in Turkish prisons during the pandemic, Bold Medya reported on Wednesday.
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blames the Gülen movement for a coup attempt that killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others in Turkey on July 15, 2016.
On July 26, 2016, 44-year-old Kabakçıoğlu was arrested and sent to the Gümüşhane E Type Closed Prison during a massive purge that followed the abortive putsch and targeted members of the faith-based movement in Turkey. Continue