When a death fast means life
Kurdish activist Mahmut Kardaş recently ended a 44-day ‘death fast’ staged to protest his detention in a Turkish prison. Kardaş ...
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Three-day hunger strike protests neglect of critically ill prisoners in Turkey
Jailed Kobane trail defendant Sebahat Tuncel, former co-chair of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), on Monday declared a three-day hunger ...
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Detained hunger striker’s health falters in Turkish high-security prison
Prisoner Nedim Öztürk, who has been on hunger strike for 111 days in a high-security prison in the Turkish capital ...
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Landmark 1982 death fast protest of Kurdish prisoners in Turkey commemorated
On the anniversary of the death fast initiated by Kurdish prisoners in 1982 to protest the inhumane treatment in the ...
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