TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) issued an urgent appeal for international support for sick prisoners being mistreated in Turkish jails today.

The party’s foreign affairs spokespeople Feleknas Uca and Hisyar Ozsoy highlighted the case of jailed former HDP MP Aysel Tugluk who suffers with dementia.

Her health has continued to deteriorate and she no longer recognises people and cannot care for herself, the pair said in a joint statement.