Turkey’s prison boom: Erdogan’s effort to tighten control over 85 million people - Nordic Monitor

Turkey’s prison boom: Erdogan’s effort to tighten control over 85 million people - Nordic Monitor

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Following the pattern of past authoritarian rulers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made mass incarceration a central instrument of his governance. Under his rule the country has witnessed an unprecedented expansion of its prison system, with new facilities being rapidly constructed to accommodate the growing number of political prisoners, journalists, academics and activists accused of opposing the regime. …