{"id":121054,"date":"2026-07-02T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/121054\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:33:16","slug":"turkish-prison-denies-hospital-transfer-to-student-recovering-from-spinal-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/121054\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish prison denies hospital transfer to student recovering from spinal surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 21-year-old psychology student recovering from spinal surgery who is being held in pretrial detention over alleged links to the faith-based G\u00fclen movement has been denied transfer to a hospital<\/a> despite repeatedly losing consciousness and a prison doctor\u2019s referral.<\/p>\n

According to the Bold Medya news website, Meryem Y\u0131lmaz, who suffers from severe curvature of the spine, underwent spinal surgery last year and is still recovering. She fainted while in police custody after her detention on June 9 and has continued to lose consciousness in jail. Although the prison doctor suggested in a referral that she visit a neurologist and an orthopedic surgeon, she has not been taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n

Y\u0131lmaz was among 40 university students detained<\/a> in nationwide operations conducted in 11 provinces targeting people accused of links to the G\u00fclen movement. She was arrested on June 12 and sent to \u0130zmir \u015eakran Women\u2019s Prison<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has targeted followers of the G\u00fclen movement, inspired by US-based cleric Fethullah G\u00fclen, who died in 2024, since corruption investigations in December 2013 implicated him as well as some members of his family and inner circle. He dismissed the probes as a G\u00fclenist conspiracy and later designated the movement as a terrorist organization in May 2016, intensifying a sweeping crackdown after a coup attempt in July of the same year that he accused G\u00fclen of orchestrating. The movement denies involvement in the coup attempt or any terrorist activity.<\/p>\n

Following the detentions, \u00d6mer Faruk Gergerlio\u011flu, a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples\u2019 Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), said the students had been prevented from meeting with their lawyers and that prosecutors were attempting to take their testimony without legal representation.<\/p>\n

The evidence cited against Y\u0131lmaz includes a previous investigation into her father over alleged G\u00fclen links and the family\u2019s travel abroad.<\/p>\n

Y\u0131lmaz\u2019s family said her arrest during the week of final examinations prevented her from taking the exams and could force her to extend her studies by at least one semester.<\/p>\n

According to the latest figures from the justice ministry, more than 126,000 people have been\u00a0convicted<\/a>\u00a0of alleged links to the movement since 2016, with 11,085 still in prison. Legal proceedings are ongoing for over 24,000 individuals, while another 58,000 remain under active investigation nearly a decade later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old psychology student recovering from spinal surgery who is being held in pretrial detention over alleged links…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[6873,14049,59837,311,312,59838,15051,429,59839,131,132,155],"class_list":["post-121054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-crackdown-on-gulen-movement","tag-critically-ill-prisoners","tag-detention-of-university-students","tag-gulen-movement","tag-human-rights","tag-meryem-yilmaz","tag-omer-faruk-gergerlioglu","tag-oppression","tag-sakran-prison","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116851350529599269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}