PodcastPrison management denies female bird as friend for male pet bird
A Van prison has not allowed an inmate to acquire a female pet bird in addition to his existing male bird on the grounds that the birds could mate. "Birds' sex lives were the only thing the prison administration hadn't interfered with, they've done that too," said Macit Şahinkaya in a letter from Van High Security Prison.
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A prison in the eastern province of Van has not allowed an inmate to acquire a female pet bird in addition to his existing male bird on the grounds that the birds could mate. The issue came to light when the inmate in question wrote of the incident to news outlet Bianet.
"In October, I filed a demand to buy a female [pet] bird, but after a while I have been notified by the jail management that 'Keeping female birds has been banned.' The official in charge referred to the mating of the birds as the reason. They have decided that only male birds can live together in the same cage!" Macit Şahinkaya wrote in his letter from Van High Security Prison.
"Birds' sex lives were the only thing the prison administration hadn't interfered with, they've done that too," said Şahinkaya.
Şahinkaya added in his letter that the prison administration had failed to comply with a Constitutional Court decision that an inmate be delivered his subscription of the socialist magazine Yürüyüş.