ANKARA —
Turkey’s constitutional court Friday decided to keep a Kurdish politician with
dementia in jail, the ruling said.
Aysel Tugluk, now
57, was the deputy co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party before
her arrest in 2016.
She was sentenced
in 2018 to 10 years in prison for “belonging to a terrorist organization”.
The country’s top
court rejected a plea for her release but ordered that she receive regular
neurological and psychiatric treatment in hospital.
“The evolution of
her illness must be followed and the need for a release evaluated at regular
intervals,” the court ruled.
Tugluk’s lawyer
Serdar Celebi on Saturday last week told AFP that merely providing medication
was not enough, and her illness was only worsening in detention.
Her supporters
believe she developed dementia after witnessing Turkish nationalists attack her
mother’s funeral in Ankara in 2017. She had been authorized to attend.
Tugluk was
arrested for her activities with the Democratic Society Congress, an
organization that Turkish authorities consider to be linked to the Kurdistan
Workers’ Party, which Ankara and its Western allies have blacklisted as a
“terrorist” organization.
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ANKARA —
Turkey’s constitutional court Friday decided to keep a Kurdish politician with
dementia in jail, the ruling said.
Aysel Tugluk, now
57, was the deputy co-chair of the pro-
Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party before
her arrest in 2016.
She was sentenced
in 2018 to 10 years in prison for “belonging to a terrorist organization”.
The country’s top
court rejected a plea for her release but ordered that she receive regular
neurological and psychiatric treatment in hospital.
“The evolution of
her illness must be followed and the need for a release evaluated at regular
intervals,” the court ruled.
Tugluk’s lawyer
Serdar Celebi on Saturday last week told AFP that merely providing medication
was not enough, and her illness was only worsening in detention.
Her supporters
believe she developed dementia after witnessing Turkish nationalists attack her
mother’s funeral in
Ankara in 2017. She had been authorized to attend.
Tugluk was
arrested for her activities with the Democratic Society Congress, an
organization that Turkish authorities consider to be linked to the Kurdistan
Workers’ Party, which Ankara and its Western allies have blacklisted as a
“terrorist” organization.
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