{"id":23532,"date":"2012-08-08T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=23532"},"modified":"2012-08-08T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:55:10","slug":"turkey-number-of-students-in-turkish-prisons-hits-2824","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-number-of-students-in-turkish-prisons-hits-2824\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey : Number of students in Turkish prisons hits 2,824"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23539\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23539\" title=\"Turkey : Number of students in Turkish prisons hits 2,824 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/students-in-turkish-prisons-nationalturk-0455.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey : Number of students in Turkish prisons hits 2,824 \" width=\"610\" height=\"429\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkey : Number of students in Turkish prisons hits 2,824<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>There are currently 2,824 students in Turkish jails, recent numbers declared by the Ministry of Justice have revealed.<\/h2>\n<p>Ankara \/ NationalTurk &#8211; Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin recently released data in response to Turkish main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) Manisa parliament member \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel\u2019s parliamentary question regarding how many convicted high school and university students currently jailed were under arrest on the charge of \u201cbeing a member of an armed terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2,824 students have been arrested since Jan. 31, 2012, is the number according to Sadullah Ergin.<\/p>\n<p>Within this number 1,778 students were arrested while the remaining 1,046 were charged but not arrested. Out of those arrested, 609 were arrested for \u201cbeing a member of an armed terrorist organization,\u201d while 178 students were charged without arrest for the same crime.<\/p>\n<h3>Have you ever been to a Turkish Prison, student ?<\/h3>\n<p>The Turkish Justice Ministry had no statistical data about the number of students alleged to have relations with more than one illegal organization, Ergin said.<\/p>\n<p>CHP deputy \u00d6zel stated the number of arrested and convicted students was \u201cterrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is above our estimations. Even the students unfurling banners about free education are charged with having relations to the armed terrorist organizations. The Turkish prosecutors trying to create criminals seemed to have achieved that,\u201d \u00d6zel said.<\/p>\n<p>Galatasaray University student Cihan K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131g\u00fcl was arrested for wearing a \u201cposhu\u201d scarf in Ka\u011f\u0131thane in Feb. 2010 and was kept under arrest for more than 2 years. \u201cSince the piece of cloth called poshu was used for the intention of a crime, it is decided on his confiscation according to the Article No: 54 of the Turkish Penal Code,\u201d the court\u2019s verdict for Cihan K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131g\u00fcl shown.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are currently 2,824 students in Turkish jails, recent numbers declared by the Ministry of Justice have revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,42,1,118,101,172,174,194,173,188,14],"tags":[30818,30817,30812,7984,18204,30815,30813,30814,13119,30816,18086,30811,30810],"class_list":["post-23532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-education","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-turkey-choice","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-politics","category-world","tag-have-you-been-to-a-turkish-prison","tag-have-you-ever-been-to-a-turkish-prison","tag-number-of-jailed-turkish-students","tag-republican-peoples-party","tag-republican-peoples-party-turkey","tag-sadullah-ergin","tag-turkey-justice","tag-turkey-justice-minister","tag-turkey-main-opposition","tag-turkish-prisons","tag-turkish-students","tag-turkish-students-in-jail","tag-turkish-students-in-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}