London woman becomes fiftieth hunger striker to die in Turkey By Andrew Finkel in Istanbul and Daniel McGrory IN HER last, whispered telephone call to friends in London, Meryem Altun, 25, told them that she was determined to starve herself to death. A few weeks later, on April 1, after 301 days of refusing all solid food, the London-based community worker died in a Turkish hospital with only two prison guards for company. Ms Altun became the fiftieth person to die on a hunger strike as part of a mass protest against prison conditions in Turkey. When ten Republicans starved themselves to death in Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, they attracted huge publicity around the world, yet this hunger strike has passed almost unnoticed outside Turkey and the immediate area of North London where Ms Altun lived. "Nobody outside her own community even knows her name," Gurkan Gur, who worked with her in London, complained. "Fifty people starve themselves to death, including this young woman, and nobody seems to care." More FROM http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/04/22/9727223
Also on the news just now,gas and clubs are out at wackenhuts WA port Hedland concentration camp.One way to end a stand off I suppose.Prisoners are fighting at the perimeter fence.
