Mehmet Yeter, a man of 70 years, is the first victim of coronavirus in Turkish prisons. Sentenced for drug trafficking to three years in prison in Bafra, near Samsun (northern part of the country), he died on march 23, after having contracted the disease. His funeral was held without his family and it is thanks to the call of one of his fellow inmates that his son has been informed, told the daily Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet. Ill with diabetes, the prisoner had been hospitalized on an emergency basis on march 16 and had to have his leg amputated. Just three days after his operation, he had been returned…
