Turkey: TKP-ML Death-Faster Dies
>
> Turkish prisoner hunger strike death toll hits 30
> ================================
>
> 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.
>
> <...>
>
> 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 may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or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.
>
> --
> Press Agency Ozgurluk
> In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation
> Struggle in Turkey
> http://www.ozgurluk.org
>
>
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