Kurdish And Turkish Hunger Strikers

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Subject: Kurdish And Turkish Hunger Strikers Near Death, HADEP Says

Kurdish And Turkish Hunger Strikers Near Death, HADEP Says

A number of Kurdish and leftist militant inmates are near death 
after more than a month on hunger strike in a prison in Erzurum, 
officials of the Kurdish political party HADEP said on Friday, 
April 11. "The hunger strike has entered it 33rd day. It is a 
critical situation," Abdulmelik Okyay, head of the pro-Kurdish 
People's Democracy Party (HADEP), told Reuters in Ankara. 
37 people, mostly members of the Kurdistan Workers 
Party (PKK) as well as other left-wing urban guerrillas, are 
taking part in the strike for better jail conditions. "There 
could be deaths as of Monday or Tuesday because there are a few 
people in a very bad way," Okyay said. Last year, 12 leftist prisoners, 
member of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Front (DHKC) and 
the Turkish Communist Party/Marxist-Leninist (TKP-ML), died during 
a death fast in protest of inhumane prison conditions in 
Turkey and Kurdistan.


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