Turkish detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention -- Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld. Turkish detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding five Turkish captives in Guantanamo. A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of July 2012 the camp population stands at 168. Several released Turkish captives have filed a lawsuit
Mail privileges of Guantanamo Bay detainees Advocate submitted an affidavit about further restrictions the Department of Defense wanted to place on mail between Guantanamo habeas counsels and their clients. McCarthy asserted that attorneys for the prisoners had provided a copy of a book on Abu Ghraib, a speech given at an Amnesty International conference about the war on terror, and other materials, and that such materials threatened prison security. Mail privileges of Guantanamo Bay detainees There have been mixed reports of the limits on Guantanamo detainees' mail privileges. On July 23, 2002 Master Sergeant Debra A. Tart gave an interview to the "American Forces Press Service"