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Öcalan’s lawyers say further requests to meet with him unanswered
Lawyers for jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
leader Abdullah Öcalan on Thursday said that even though Turkish officials had
declared a ban preventing meetings with their...
3 mothers of hunger strikers recorded by police as ‘ignorant’ instead of ‘illiterate’
Three mothers of inmates on a hunger strike in Turkish prisons have been referred to as “ignorant” in police records because they are illiterate,...
Kurdish protesters rush Amnesty London office, demand statement on Öcalan’s ‘isolation’
Some
40 Kurdish protesters forced their way into Amnesty International’s
International Secretariat in London on Friday night, insisting that the NGO
release a statement about ongoing prison...
Investigation launched into police officers who harassed elderly female protestors
An investigation has
been launched into the police officers who forcibly removed the mothers of
inmates on a hunger strike after they attempted to hold a...
Police forcibly remove mothers of inmates on hunger strike to prevent sit-in
Turkish police on Friday forcibly removed the mothers
of inmates on a hunger strike after they attempted to hold a sit-in in front of
Gebze Prison...
4th Kurdish inmate in a week kills self over public silence on hunger strikes
The fourth Kurdish inmate in a week has committed suicide in protest of the public silence on hunger strikes in several Turkish prisons over...
Inmate commits suicide to protest public silence on hunger strikes in Turkey
Ayten Beçet, a 28-year-old inmate in Gebze Prison,
committed suicide to protest the public silence on hunger strikes in several
Turkish prisons concerning the “isolation” of...