TURKEY: TURKISH PRISONERS WHO HAVE ENDED HUNGER STRIKE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL IN FEEBLE CONDITION

Record ID: 342153

  • Title: TURKEY: TURKISH PRISONERS WHO HAVE ENDED HUNGER STRIKE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL IN FEEBLE CONDITION
  • Date: 27th July 1996
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (JULY 27-28, 1996) (RTV ACCESS ALL) (JULY 28, 1996) (NIGHT TIME) 1. SV THREE SERIOUSLY ILL HUNGER STRIKERS BEING CARRIED BY STRETCHER INTO HOSPITAL AFTER HUNGER STRIKE ENDED (3 SHOTS) 0.39 (JULY 27, 1996) (NIGHT TIME) 2. SLV/SV POLICE WITH RIOT SHIELDS LINED UP IN FRONT OF BAYRAMPASA PRISON (2 SHOTS) 0.55 3. SV MEDIA 0.59 4. MCU MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT MUKADDER BASEGMEZ, SPEAKING OUTSIDE PRISON, SAYING THAT THE HUNGER STRIKE IS OVER (TURKISH) 1.12 5. SV CAMERAMEN 1.17 6. MCU ISTANBUL PROSECUTOR FERZAN CITICI SPEAKING OF GOVERNMENT ROLE IN ENDING OF STRIKE (TURKISH) - MUSICIAN AND FELLOW NEGOTIATOR ZULFU LIVANELI SEEN NEXT TO HIM 1.30 7. SV TWO WOMEN EMBRACE AND WEEP AT END OF HUNGER STRIKE 1.42 8. SLV AMBULANCE TAKING BODY OF YEMLIHA KAYA A WOMAN PRISONER (WHO DIED 27/7) TO MORGUE 1.58 (JULY 28, 1996) (DAYTIME) 9. MCU NEGOTIATOR ZULFU LIVANELI SAYING THAT WE NEGOTIATED WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY AGREED TO DEMANDS 2.17 (JULY 27) 10.LAS/SV PROTESTERS MARCH IN SUPPORT OF THE HUNGER STRIKERS DOWN ISTIKLAL STREET IN ISTANBUL (2 SHOTS) 2.25 11.SV POLICE LOOK ON 2.29 12.LV/SV MOTHERS AND RELATIVES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED (WITH BLACK BANDS - KNOWN AS 'SATURDAY MOTHERS') HOLD UP PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEM (2 SHOTS) 2.40 13.TV OF CROWD FROM A HIGH BUILDING 2.48 TRANSCRIPT SQ 9: LIVANELI: "WE NEGOTIATED WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND WE SPOKE TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND FINALLY WE HAVE HAPPY END, THE HUNGER STRIKE IS OVER NOW, THE GOVERNMENT ACCEPTED THE PRISONERS' WISHES AND I AM REALLY HAPPY TODAY." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 11th August 1996 13:00
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  • Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
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  • Country: Turkey
  • Reuters ID: LVADS4N6XOAN8P1E19YGQ5E829Y6
  • Story Text: INTRO: Turkish prisoners who have ended a hunger strike, during which 12 of them died, have been taken to hospital in feeble condition as relatives expressed relief at the end of the protest.

    And a negotiator who helped to bring about the the settlement of the strike has said the the best possible solution to the crisis has been found.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------- A twelfth Turkish inmate died early on Sunday (July 28) and some 20 others were in critical condition in hospital after leftist prisoners ended a two-month hunger strike, human rights workers said.

    A spokesman for the independent Human Rights Association said: "About 150 people are in hospital -- around 20 of them in critical condition. Others are being treated in prison." More than 300 left-wing prisoners had been on hunger strike demanding better treatment in prisons and an end to a policy of dispersal which they say cut them off from each other, their families and their lawyers.

    A group of parliamentarians, leftist writers, politicians and musicians negotiated with Bayrampasa inmates to end the hunger strikes.

    The prisoners agreed to end their hunger strikes after the government partly accepted their demands on Saturday (July 27) night.

    "I am pleased to announce that the hunger strikes are over," Mukadder Basegmez, a member of parliament for the Welfare Party of the ruling coalition said outside Istanbul's Bayrampasa jail.

    Bayrampasa prison was the main focus of the hunger strike that spread across some 30 jails.

    In the Capa University Hospital 5 critically ill inmates were taken into intensive care. Relatives and supporters were subdued while waiting in front of the hospital.

    Columnist and musician Zulfu Livaneli who, along with Prosecutor Ferzan Citici, was involved in mediation efforts in the team who negotiated the final settlement with the prisoners, emphasized it was the best solution to a crisis which dominated the news bulletins and headlines for more than a week.

    On Saturday (July 27), protesters including mothers of hunger strikers, marched through Istanbul to demand a solution to the crisis.


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