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A NEW group of hunger strikers held in Turkish prisons have started a “death fast” today in protest at the continued isolation of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan.
The 15 prisoners from the PKK and the Free Women’s Party of Kurdistan (PAJK) announced the move as “the next stage of the resistance” saying they were prepared to die unless their demands were met.
In a statement, the group warned that the Turkish state was violating international law and engaging in a form of torture in its treatment of Mr Ocalan, claiming it amounted to a policy of “absolute annihilation and genocide.”
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