Hayriye Ozturk Housewife,
  • Death Date 09/05/2019
  • Place of Death Kirsehir
  • Cause of Death Traffic accident
  • Date of Burial 10.05.2019, Kayseri

Biography

Huseyin Ozturk, 47, set off with his relatives from Kayseri to see his imprisoned relative in Istanbul. The driver allegedly braked suddenly to avoid hitting a dog in the Kasimaga village area in the Kirsehir-Kirikkale highway, lost control of the steering wheel, and stopped after somersaults. The injured passengers at the accident site were transported to nearby hospitals following the initial operation by the paramedics. While Hayriye Ozturk (57) died in the wrecked car, the driver Huseyin Ozturk and Yigit Erdogan (52), Fevziye Erdogan (51) and Aysegul Ozturk were injured.

It is a non-stop journey of nearly 9 hours as it is 853 km between Kayseri and Silivri Prison in Istanbul. It is nearly 500 Turkish Lira (in November 2021) to get a return ticket from Kayseri to Istanbul, excluding other expenses during the journey or any expenditure in Istanbul. The minimum wage in the country is 2,828 TL (as of November 2021) and one visit, with other expenses, is almost 20% of the minimum wage. Therefore, if a family of 5 visits their innocent relative, the financial cost is nearly a month’s income. Let alone the physical tiredness; it is also a financial ensnarling for the prisoners` relatives. 

It is a `torture method` that the Erdogan regime sends the Hizmet related prisoners to the cities far from their families, purposefully, to prove troublesome, so that their families will hardly visit them. There were dozens of accidents during such visits and dozens of people, including countless children, passed away. The regime`s other intention to send the Gulenist prisoners far away is to minimise the travels in order to diminish the moral support between the prisoners and their families. So-called Islamic regime, whose leader shows Holy Book in political rallies or reads it in front of cameras, like any other famous tyrannic leaders like Hitler or Saddam, practices the implementations against the constitution, including strip search, that any colonial power would not dare to apply.

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