(Today is day 42 of the Death Fast by 104 Communists) Death fasters on the brink of death The number of inmates on the death fast, who has passed over the death line medically, rose to 104. According to the lawyer of the inmates in Aydin Prison, the health condition of the inmates on the death fast are going worse. Despite the health problems are apparent on the inmates, they does not accept the medical care. Inmates announced that they would never accept medical care even if they lose their conscious 2 Reports Below... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Izmir - Turkish Daily News The number of inmates who has turned the hunger strike to death fast on the 30th day of the strike rose to 104 with the attendance of three inmates in Aydin prison on the 41st day. According to the some authorities the health conditions of three inmates on death fast in Aydin Prison are going worst and despite this, they do not still accept medical care. It is expected more inmates to join the death fast to support these 104 inmates on death fast. According to the Aydin Head Prosecutor Mustafa Adagul, there were some health problem apparent on the three inmates on the death fast in Aydin prison. Underlining that there was nothing to worry about the inmates' health situation, Adagul said " We are trying to persuade them to quit the fast but they didn't accept to quit or any health care." According to the information Turkish Daily News obtained that the health condition of three inmates in Aydin Prison are going worse. The lawyer of the inmates in Aydin Prison, Hasan Kose said that the number of the inmates on the death fast rose to 6 and the three inmates' health condition going fast. "Some health problems like gastric bleeding, dizzying, thinning of the skin, vomiting, hair loss and visual impairment were apparent on these inmates who has passed over the medical death line." Kose also said that these inmates are decided to go on their fast despite these health problems. "These inmates has applied to the Chamber of Doctor that if they lose their conscious, they would not be examined by anybody." The leftist inmates of 816 in Turkey's 18 jails have launched the hunger strike in order to protest the new cell-based F type prisons and demand health conditions in the prisons.While 101 inmates are on death fast in prisons, 13 mothers of prisoners on the death fast in Istanbul, Ankara, Adana and Bursa entered 14th day of the death fast of their own in support of the inmates. The prisoners on the death fast are; 21 in Umraniye Prison, 6 in Cankiri Prison, 10 in Bursa Prison, 6 in Aydin Prison, 11 in Canakkale Prison, 6 in Malatya Prison, 8 in Bartin Prison, 6 in Gebze Prison, 6 in Ceyhan prison, 4 in Usak Prison, 2 in Ulucanlar Prison, 4 in Buca prison, 13 in Bayrampasa prison and 1 in Elbistan prison. These inmates, who cannot benefit from the amnesty government is preparing to launch because it is disregarding separatist and leftist inmates are also member of various illegal leftist groups: 648 of strikers are members of the DHKPC (Revolutionary People's Liberation Front), 145 of them are Turkey Communist Party -Marxist and Leninists- (TKP-ML) and 23 of them are members of Turkey Communist Workers Party (TKIP). The inmates underlining their demands by calling for the canceling the application of the new cell-based F type prison, annulment of the State Security Courts (DGM) and a formation of a commission including the doctors, lawyers, prisoners' relatives and representatives of NGOs to inspect the prisons. Izmir Bar Association also held a press meeting Wednesday and called for the government to solve problem in prisons and to approach to inmates with understanding. The Chairman of the Bar, Noyan Ozkan said that cell-based F Type prison is a dilemma because with the current applications in the prisons, the cell-based system has serious inconvenience. "The right and responsibilities of inmates should not be arranged by notices, it should be arranged by laws. The qualified personal should be employed in the prisons. The inmates should have the right to say in the management," Ozkan said. Ozkan said "We have experienced death event in the death fast in the past, for that reason we know the result of this kind events. The government should approach these inmates with understanding that this fast should not be concluded with deaths." __________________________________ 'Deathly' silence in the government ======================= Ninety-nine inmates and detainees, 24 of whom are women, continue their death fast in 17 different prisons. As the death fast in protest of F-type (isolation cell) prisons ends its 40th day, those in power have had not a word to say. The hunger strike being supported by 15 artists in a show of solidarity with the death fast also has now entered its 9th day. NEWS CENTER The government has not broken its deathly silence on prisons, which continue to be Turkey's bleeding wound, even as the death fast enters its 41st day. Inmates and detainees imprisoned on Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), Turkish Communist Workers' Party (TKIP), and Turkish Communist Party/Marxist Leninist [TKP(ML)] charges in 17 different prisons say they are determined to continue with their fast. Prisoners and detainees, their families, and human rights defenders all refer to the F-type prisons - which officials assert are up to European standards - as "coffins." And protests against the F-type prisons continues, just as government construction of them continues. The hunger strike in which a total of 816 prisoners were participating turned into a death fast as of November 18. At present, 99 inmates and detainees, 24 of whom are women, continue the death fast. Meanwhile, the families members of prisoners who began a hunger strike to support the activists in prisons have ended the eighth day of their strike. Hunger strikers were hosted in the home of singer Bilgesu Erenus and then Mahmut Gokgoz. The 15 hunger strikers finished the eighth day of their protest in the home of singer Haydar Bayer. What do medical experts say? Medical circles call attention to the fact that those who begin death fasts lose 80 percent of their life functions after 20 days, whereas as of the 30th day, vegetable existence can set in and vital organs can lose most of their functions. Medical experts say that serious illness sets in after the 40th day of a fast. Some of the symptoms that are currently being seen in the prisoners on the death fast are loss of hearing, vision disturbances, double vision, even blindness, nausea and vomiting, jaundice, bleeding of the gums, stomach bleeding, and bed sores. Prisoners say their demands are as follows: "Close down the F-type cell prisons. Abolish the No. 3713 Anti-Terrorism Law and all of its consequences. Abolish the Three-Way Protocol (which curtails lawyer-client rights). Close down the State Security Courts (DGMs). Let those who are responsible for the serious wounding and deaths of our friends on various dates in Buca, Umraniye, Diyarbakir, Ulucanlar, and Burdur prisons be brought to justice. Release our friends who have permanent physical problems, those who incurred physical problems during the 1996 hunger strike, and those who have been wounded in various assaults and have not been able to receive treatment. Bring torturers to justice. Abolish all the anti-democratic laws standing in the way of the people's struggle for democracy and freedom, and end the oppressions." =================================== "Wherever we are, fascists cannot even exist. Those who spill the blood of our people, our dear comrades and who murder them, cannot breathe the same air we do, and nor can their collaborators. Fascists have no rights. They are not human. They are the enemies of humanity. Murder, massacres, torture, drugs, prostitution, all kind of indignity and immorality are their business. Fascists have no right to exist wherever we are. It is the duty of everyone who considers themselves human to punish them and not to let them survive on earth." - DHKP-C Prisoners DHKC - http://www.dhkc.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] IKM - http://www.noisolation.de www.ozgurluk.org
