From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [L-I] Turkey: Death fast claims 42nd AFP. 19 November 2001. Woman inmate becomes 42nd to die in Turkish jail hunger strike. ISTANBUL -- A hunger-striking female prison inmate died of starvation here Monday, bringing to 42 the death toll from a year-old protest against controversial prison reforms in Turkey, a rights group told AFP. Tulay Korkmaz, 26, jailed for membership of an extreme left underground group, perished 193 days after joining the fast-to-death, a spokeswoman for the Human Rights Association said. The strike was launched by mainly far-left inmates in October 2000, and spread outside prisons as inmates released due to their deteriorating health continued to fast and were joined by relatives and other supporters. The protestors say the new prisons, where cells for up to three people replaced dormitories housing dozens, increase social alienation and leave prisoners more vulnerable to maltreatment. Along with the 42 people who have died of starvation, four inmates have burned themselves to death in support of the strike and another four people died in a police raid earlier this month on an Istanbul house occupied by hunger-strikers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
