Faysal Encü tells of his ordeal in prison

ANF –
Elbistan 09.05.2013

Faysal Encü, a relative of many victims of the Roboski massacre, has revealed in a letter the tragedy he has been living in prison for the last ten years.

Encü, jailed for ten years now and currently in Elbistan E Type Prison, is suffering from coeliac disease which he can however not overcome because of the denial of necessary supplies by prison administrations.

Encü, father of three, has lost his wife and mother and his children were given to an orphans’ asylum during the ten years he spent in prison. He writes that his wife lost her life in a traffic accident while on the way to Mardin E Type Prison to pay him a visit on 27 November 2006. “My eldest child was 13 and the smallest 5 when my wife died. After the incident, my children started to live with their grandparents who however failed to provide them with the care and psychological support they needed. Two years later, my children were taken to an orphans’ asylum after they were detained in front of the prison when they came there for a visit to me. Thanks to the efforts of the whole family, my children were given back to my brother. They suffered remarkable psychological problems at that time”, he tells.
Referring to his health problems, Encü writes that doctors had said there was nothing wrong with him till 2010 when he was once rushed to Dicle University Hospital with gastrointestinal bleeding. He says that “Following a intestine surgery, I was diagnosed with coeliac disease and given a report for a life time gluten-free diet. Despite the doctor’s proposal for my stay in Diyarbak?r E Type Closed Prison, I was transferred to Erzurum H Type Closed Prison in 2011 which ordered me to receive a new report on my disease. Despite the fact that I received two reports from two different hospitals confirming my disease, I was this time transferred to Elbistan E Type Closed Prison before six months was over. Here, I once again saw a doctor to confirm my disease but the prison officials still didn’t provide me with the supplies I needed to have. To give an instance, I still haven’t received the supplies I demanded with the drug prescription dated 5-13 February”. Encü notes that he had asked to be taken to a Forensic Medicine Institution and, that he hasn’t been allowed to do it yet.

Encü states that he is also having complaints of numbness and pain in the left arm and foot since he had a surgery because of a tumour on his neck as well as herniated disc and cervical disc hernia. He underlines that his disease prison conditions are overstraining him by now, and notes that he has been denied permission to be transferred to a prison close to his family.

Encü adds that he also lived serious physcological problems because of the Roboski massacre in which many of his relatives were killed on 28 December 2011.

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