- Title: GERMANY: HUNDREDS OF KURDS ATTEND FUNERAL OF HUNGER-STRIKER
- Date: 2nd August 1995
- Summary: OSNABRUECK, GERMANY (AUGUST 2, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV PROTESTERS MARCHING, CARRYING BANNERS, FLAGS, FLOWERS, PHOTOGRAPHS / CHANTING (9 SHOTS) 0.56 2. SLV ONLOOKERS (2 SHOTS) 1.09 3. SV COFFIN BEING TAKEN OUT OF HEARSE 1.19 4. SV COFFIN CARRIED TO GRAVE SITE / PEOPLE CHANTING (2 SHOTS) 1.39 5. SV MEDIA 1.42 6. SV COFFIN BEING LOWERED INTO GRAVE (2 SHOTS) 1.57 7. SLV PEOPLE STANDING AROUND GRAVE 2.01 8. SV MEN SHOVELLING DIRT INTO GRAVE / WOMEN WATCHING (2 SHOTS) 2.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: OSNABRUECK, GERMANY
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- Country: Germany
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- Story Text: Hundreds of Kurds shouting support for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) gathered in Germany on Wednesday (August 2) to bury a hunger-striker who died after an eight-day fast in solidarity with Kurdish prisoners in Turkey.
Kurds met in the northern city of Osnabrueck to join the funeral procession for 41-year-old Gulnaz Bagiztani, a mother of five who died last week after fasting together with hundreds of other Kurds in Germany.
The marchers chanted protests against Turkey's treatment of Kurds and against Interior Minister Manfred Kanther, who has blamed the PKK for a spate of arson attacks against Turkish property in Germany.
The PKK, fighting Ankara for independence or autonomy in southeast Turkey, has been banned in Germany since 1993 for staging violent protests here.
A large flag of the Kurdistan National Liberation Front (ERNK), the PKK's political wing, draped the coffin holding Bagiztani, whom radical Kurds have hailed as a martyr.
Berlin city authorities say Bagiztani was exhausted by the hunger strike and the summer heat, but Kurdish militants say she died from being manhandled when police broke up the vigil in which she was taking part.
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