Kenan Ipek, General Director of Prisons, has announced that the demand "3 doors and 3 locks should be opened!", which is one of the main demands of the struggle against F-Type Prisons and isolation policy, will not be accepted.
Cemil Cicek, Minister of Justice, has not made any declaration yet, despite that Lawyer Behic Asci, Gulcan Goruroglu and Sevgi Saymaz are continuing the death fast against the F-Type prisons and isolation, that the families of the prisoners carry on their struggle, that there is a growing sensibility towards this problem among a wide sector containing the lawyers, trade-unions, intellectuals, artists and journalists and that the number of the actions against F-Type prisons have increased during these days of the anniversary of the massacre of 19 December .
F-type prisons consist of the units containing 3 cells with 1 to 3 people in each. These units have the shape of the capital letter "F". A certain number of units are called a division and the divisions form the whole prison. The demand "3 doors and 3 locks should be opened" means that the doors of the three cells in each unit should be opened certain hours a day and at most 9 prisoners should come together in the units. Before the F-Type prisons, the divisions were not containing cells or units and all the prisoners in a division were able to see each other. But according to the policy in F-Type prisons which started with the massacre of 19 December, the prisoners in one cell can never communicate with those in other cells and it was possible for more than three prisoners to come together only if they accept all the conditions of the state. On the other hand, the demand "3 doors and 3 locks should be opened!" means that the doors of the cells would be opened without accepting the conditions of the state and therefore, it would be a rupture to some extend, in the isolation policy of the state.
While he was announcing that this demand would be refused, Kenan Ipek told that this would "mean the same thing as to give the keys of the prison to the prisoners". He added that he finds Lawyer Behic Asci's death fast "ununderstandable" and he expressed that they will "work on a project to increase the time during which the prisoners can come together in the library, sports rooms and workshops". Since the use of these areas is dependent on the acceptance of state's conditions by the prisoners, the revolutionary prisoners never use these places. But Ipek tries to show this as an alternative of the demand about three doors. This attitude shows that the fascist dictatorship will insist on isolation despite all the opposition.