LurkerJ on 10 February 2017
| Kerotan said: Are there actually 140k people still imprisoned? What's the real number? |
I am not sure, the prisons are full though.
He imprisoned anyone he considered an enemy, it got to the point in which prisons were full and Turkey had to free actual criminals to make room for political prisoners.
"Acting under powers granted by a state of emergency and allowing the state to bypass Parliament to enact new laws, Turkey said in a decree issued on Wednesday that it would begin releasing up to 38,000 prisoners, or roughly one in five people behind bars. Most will be freed by the end of the week to make room for the wave of journalists, teachers, lawyers and judges rounded up in connection with last month’s failed coup."
