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Diyarbakır Prison ((トルコ語:Diyarbakır Cezaevi); (クルド語:Girtîgeha Amedê)) is a prison located in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey. It was built in 1980 as an E-type prison by the Ministry of Justice. After the September 12, 1980 Turkish coup d'état, the facility was transferred to military administration and became a Martial Law Military Prison ((トルコ語:Sıkıyönetim Askeri Cezaevi)). Control of the prison was returned to the Ministry of Justice on May 8, 1988. The capacity of Diyarbakır E-type Prison is 744. However, the prison is sometimes overcrowded. When the Human Rights Commission in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) visited the prison in October 1996 it had a capacity of 650 and was accommodating 942 prisoners.〔 Diyarbakır D-type prison, which is provided for political prisoners can hold 688 persons.〔A list in excel format can be (downloaded from the website of the General Directorate for Penal and Arrest Centres ) in the Ministry of Justice, said to be up-to-date as of 31 January 2011; accessed on 21 May 2011〕 What has been called "the period of barbarity" (tr: ''vahşet dönemi'') or "the hell of Diyarbakır" (tr: ''Diyarbakır cehennemi''), refers to the early and mid-1980s (in particular the years between 1981–1984) where the prisoners in the newly built Diyarbakır Military Prison No. 5 were exposed to horrific acts of systematic torture.〔Welat Zeydanlıoğlu: (Torture and Turkification in the Diyarbakır Military Prison ), undated, accessed on 21 May 2011. More information on the author can be found at http://welatzeydanlioglu.wordpress.com/. Sites to download the report as pdf file include https://www.interdisciplinarypress.net/...torture/rights-citizenship-torture-download-introduction-pdf〕 According to ''The Times'', it is among the "ten most notorious jails in the world." Between 1981 and 1984, 34 prisoners lost their lives.〔(Açılımda ilk adım: Diyarbakır Cezaevi taşınıyor ) CNN Türk of 22 August 2009; accessed on 21 May 2011〕 In August, 2009, plans were announced to convert the facility into a school.〔 The idea was criticized by Kurdish activists who wanted the prison to become a museum to human rights abuses.〔("Turn Diyarbakır Prison into a Museum!" ) Bianet of 25 August 2009; accessed on 21 May 2011〕 Although construction on a larger prison outside of the city has already begun, no decision over what to do with the existing Diyarbakir prison has been made. Kurdish activists and politicians find their plans for a human rights museum, known as the "Museum of Shame," largely ignored by the state government. As of now, Diyarbakır is still a functioning prison. == History == In the 19th century, Diyarbakır prison was known throughout the Ottoman Empire as the home of harsh and feared sentences given to political prisoners or members of the enslaved Balkan region who dared to speak out against their rulers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diyarbakır Prison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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