prison

10 entries

Pages about what happened during the period of detention and about the statements made from prison.

Kuytul's prison ward was raided — even the inside of his sock was inspected

Alparslan Kuytul's lawyer, Ömer Hakseven, reported that one day after the case files he had delivered himself entered the ward, Kuytul's ward was raided, all his belongings were scattered, and he was made to take off his slippers and even the inside of his sock was inspected. The reason given was the metal fastener inside the blue folders.

Clothes brought by Kuytul's family were not handed over in prison

The clothes were not handed over. His daughter Meryem Kuytul set out a month of shifting rules: thirty days in the same clothes, and the weather has turned cold.

Ten people transferred to Erzurum are held in solitary

Furkan Haber reports ten detainees in the case are in solitary confinement, moved from around Adana to Erzurum without their families or lawyers being informed.

A "well-type" wing: no sunlight reaches the floor of the prison holding Kuytul

Lawyer Ömer Hakseven on the prison holding Alparslan Kuytul: 13-metre yard walls, sunlight that never reaches the ground, birds that cannot come down.

"This file is not a criminal file, it is a SILENCE file"

The message Alparslan Kuytul sent from Erzurum Dumlu Prison was published on 1 September 2026 from the Furkan Movement's X account. It says that the purpose behind the detention of 46 people in Istanbul and the arrest of 9 of them is to put an end to the marches and to make those in prison forgotten; it asks that the press statements be continued even if only one person is left.

The First Forum Program After His Release

The forum program held on Friday, 13 December 2019, eight days after the release of 5 December 2019: prison memories, the letters that arrived and questions about the court process.

14 of the 22 Months in Prison Were Spent in a Single-Person Room

Fourteen months of the 8 February 2018 – 5 December 2019 detention were spent alone in a three-person room; the requests for a roommate were refused on the grounds of an instruction from the Ministry.

March 2019: The letter Alparslan Kuytul wrote to the public from prison

In the letter he wrote from Bolu F-Type Prison in March 2019: his answer to the terrorism charge and the words "Until I die I will go on saying Tawhid, Justice, Freedom, Civilisation".

29 April 2019: The letter Alparslan Kuytul wrote to the public from prison

In the letter he wrote from Bolu F-Type Prison in April 2019: his answer to the terrorism charge and the words "Until I die I will go on saying Tawhid, Justice, Freedom, Civilisation".

The claim that he insulted Atatürk

When the CD in the file was examined, an expert report established that the speaker was not Kuytul; the case was brought all the same, and on 6 February 2020 the court adjourned instead of acquitting.

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