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From: Red Rebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Che List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 2:25 AM
Subject: [red_activism] Turkey: TKP-ML Death-Faster Dies
Turkish prisoner hunger strike death toll hits 30
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August 3, 2001 Posted: 12:23 PM EDT (1623 GMT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A hunger striker protesting Turkey's prison
system starved to death Friday, raising the number of prisoners who have
died in the months-long protest to 30, the Anatolia news agency
reported.
The hunger strikers, all members of banned leftist groups, are
protesting new maximum-security prisons with small cells that, they say,
leave prisoners isolated and open to abuse by guards. The prisoners were
transferred to the new prisons from large dormitory-style wards late
last year.
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Muharrem Horoz, 28, a member of the banned Turkish Workers Communist
Liberation Army/Marxist-Leninist or TKP-ML TIKKO, died at Izmit
hospital, in northwest Turkey, Anatolia said.
Ozgur Gelecek, a leftist newspaper close to the TKP-ML TIKKO, confirmed
Horoz's death.
Some 200 prisoners from leftist groups and their relatives have been
fasting since last year, taking sugared or salted water with vitamins to
keep themselves alive and prolong the fast.
Horoz had been fasting for 236 days at northwest Kandira prison. He was
taken to Izmit hospital 10 days ago after his condition deteriorated,
Anatolia and Ozgur Gelecek said.
Anatolia said Horoz was in prison pending the outcome of a trial in
which he is accused of involvement in a 1999 bomb attack that injured a
provincial governor and killed three people, including the governor's
bodyguard. Prosecutors had demanded the death sentence for Horoz and 28
other defendants.
The government has introduced laws that allow prisoners limited communal
activity and opens prisons to independent inspections -- moves which
human rights groups have said do not go far enough.
The government has ruled out a return to a system of large wards that
were often run by leftist, Kurdish or radical Islamic groups.
Copyright 2001 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Press Agency Ozgurluk
In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey
http://www.ozgurluk.org
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