Turkey’s Ministry of Justice announced on Friday that it has released around 34,000 prisoners to make space for those who have been held since the failed coup attempt in July, news agencies and local media have reported. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ made the announcement during a meeting assessing the first 100 days of the government led by Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım.
The release of the prisoners, said the minister, is part of a whole raft of penal reforms being implemented post-coup. “This is not an amnesty,” Bozdağ stressed. “Those being released will still be subject to control orders.”
Since 15 July, Turkey has dismissed about 80,000 public sector employees in relation to the coup attempt and thousands more have been detained.
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