From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [L-I] Turkey: another raid on hunger strikers AFP. 13 November 2001. Turkish police detain nine in second raid on hunger strikers. ISTANBUL -- Turkish riot police on Tuesday detained nine people in a raid on an Istanbul district housing left-wing hunger strikers, a week after a similar security operation which left four people dead, the city's police chief said. Backed by armoured vehicles, bulldozers, ambulances and fire engines, dozens of officers moved into the Kucukarmutlu district, in the city European quarter, at 6:00 am (0400 GMT), the Anatolia news agency reported. "The operation was launched against those who have set up barricades on the streets and disrupted public order on the pretext of the hunger strike," Istanbul police chief Hasan Ozdemir said after the operation, according to the agency. The poor neighbourhood of Kucukarmutlu serves as a base for hunger strikers who have been fasting for the past several months in support of a year-old hunger strike in Turkish prisons in protest at controversial jail reforms. Anatolia said that with a police helicopter flying overhead, officers cleared all the makeshift barricades on the roads and moved out of the area by 8:30 am (0630 GMT). The agency added that supporters of the strikers had pelted officers with stones and threw molotov cocktails, while officers responded with tear gas during the operation. Ozdemir announced later that nine people, four of them hunger strikers, were detained. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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] _______
