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| Turkish Prisoner Dies in Hunger Strike |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/24/2001 |
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A prisoner starved to death last week, becoming the 34th hunger striker to die in a months-long protest by inmates opposed to Turkey's new high-security prison system. Umus Sahingoz, a 32-year old member of the banned Marxist group Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front died recently in a house in an Istanbul suburb where about a dozen other left-wing militants are also fasting, the prisoner support group Ozgur Tayad said. Sahingoz had served time at an Istanbul prison for breaching Turkey's anti-terrorism laws but was released in July. The prisoners and their supporters began fasting last year to protest the prisoners' transfers from large, dormitory-style wards to prisons with one- or three-person cells. Prisoners say the new prison system leaves them isolated and vulnerable to beatings from officers. Clashes broke out in December when security forces transferred inmates to the new prisons. Thirty inmates and two soldiers died in the clashes. |
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