Key websites¶

• Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST)
• Association of Lawyers for Freedom of Association - (Özgürlük için Hukukçular Derneği, ÖHD)
• Civil Society in the Penal System Association - (Ceza İnfaz Sisteminde Sivil Toplum Derneği, CİSST)
• Council of Europe – Annual Penal Statistics - (Adli Tıp Kurumu, ATK)
• Council of Forensic Medicine
• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture – Türkiye (CPT)
• Foundation for Society and Legal Research - (Toplum Ve Hukuk Arastirmalari Vakfi, TOHAV)
• Human Rights and Equality Institution - (Türkiye İnsan Haklari Ve Eşitlik Kurumu, HREIT/TİHEK)
• Human Rights Association - (İnsan Hakları Derneği, İHD)
• Human Rights Foundation of Turkey - (Türkiye İnsan Hakları Vakfı, HRFT/TİHV)
• Ministry of Justice
• Ombudsman - (Kamu Denetçiliği Kurumu, KDK)
• Prison Administration (in Turkish)
• Prison Administration Workshops Institution (in Turkish)
• SOS Torture Network (OMCT)
• Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment – Country Visits (SPT)
• World Prison Brief

Legal sources¶

• Constitution (in Turkish)
• European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) – Türkiye Country Profile
• Law no. 5275 on the Enforcement of Sentences and Security Measures (in Turkish)
• Law no. 6701 on the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Türkiye
• Penal Code (in Turkish)
• Regulation on the Management of Penal Institutions and the Enforcement of Sentences and Security Measures, 29th March 2020 (in Turkish)
• List of other relevant laws, presidential decrees, regulations, circulars, protocols and guidelines cited by the prison administration (in Turkish)

Reports, guides, studies¶

• Civil Society in the Penal System Association, “Aggravated Life Imprisonment in Turkey”, 2017.
• Civil Society in the Penal System Association, “Annual Report 2021”.
• Civil Society in the Penal System Association, “Annual Report 2022” (in Turkish).
• Civil Society in the Penal System Association, “Child Prisoners”, 2017 (in Turkish).
• Civil Society in the Penal System Association, “Earthquakes and Prisons”, September 2023.
• Civil Society in the Penal System Association, “Freedom of Speech in Prison”, 2019.
• Civil Society in the Penal System Association, “Handbook for Foreign Prisoners”, 2019.
• Civil Society in the Penal System Association, “Juvenile Prisoners”, June 2022.
• Civil Society in the Penal System Association, “Links between Imprisonment and Drugs”, 2018.
• Civil Society in the Penal System Association, “Monitoring Boards Report”, 2021.
• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), “Report to the Turkish Government on the visit to Turkey carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment from 6 to 17 May 2019”, 2020.
• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), “Report to the Turkish Government on the visit to Turkey carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment from 10 to 23 May 2017”, 2020.
• GOV.UK, “Arrested or in prison in Turkey”, October 2023.
• Human Rights and Equality Institution (HREIT-TİHEK), “Annual Report 2021”.
• Human Rights and Equality Institution (HREIT-TİHEK), “Report on the Visit to Bayburt M-Type Closed Prison”, May 2022.
• Human Rights and Equality Institution (HREIT-TİHEK), “Report on the Visit to Çanakkale E-Type Closed Prison”, December 2022.
• Human Rights and Equality Institution (HREIT-TİHEK), “The National Preventive Mechanism in 20 Questions”, 2021.
• Human Rights Association (İHD), “2022 Prisons Report”.
• Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT), “Treatment and Rehabilitation Centers annual report 2022”.
• Observatory on the Penal System and Human Rights (OSPDH), “Resumen del informe anual sobre el aislamiento y tortura en las cárceles turcas”, February 2024, (in Spanish).
• Ombudsman (KDK), “Annual Report 2022”.
• “Report of an Independent International Fact-finding Mission to Turkey Examining the Treatment of Lawyers Deprived of their Liberty and Observing Trial Proceedings 6-10 November 2023”, 2024.
• Stockholm Centre for Freedom, “Torture, Inhuman Treatment and Conditions in Turkish Prisons: 2022 in Review”.
• Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT), “Report on the visit made by the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment for the purpose of providing advisory assistance to the national preventive mechanism of Turkey. Report to the State party”, 2019.
• U.S. Department of State, “2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Turkey (Türkiye)”, 2023.