Number of jailed students increasing in Turkey

PanARMENIAN.Net - A recent report prepared by the Solidarity with Arrested Students Platform says that there are currently 771 students in jail in Turkey, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

Prepared by academics from different universities, the report underlines that the majority of the students are charged with “propagandizing for an illegal organization,” although most of the arrested students are not members of any illegal organizations.

“None of the students have exerted violence against anyone. Most of them are not members of any illegal organization, although they are charged with making propaganda for them. The issues they are charged with are asking for free education or education in Kurdish,” Mehmet Karlı, an academic from Istanbul’s Galatasaray University, said.

Another academic, Başak Demir, said students are asked to pay a transfer fee of about 1,000 Turkish Liras in order to take their exams when in custody, and they are not allowed to bring their class notes into prisons.