Protest at Turkish Embassy

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday November 11, 2002 14:23 by Solidarity with Hunger Strikers in Turkey thsireland at hotmail dot com

Death of Serdar Karabulut on hunger strike

'Solidarity with Hunger Strikers in Turkey' will hold a protest at the Turkish Embassy in Dublin on TUESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER at 6pm to mark the death on hunger strike of Serdar Karabulut. All are welcome to attend. The Turkish Embassy is located at 11 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge (behind the American Embassy).

Serdar Karabulut dies on hunger strike

Serdar Karabulut died on Novermber 8th, the 98th person to die in the ongoing struggle against the isolation prisons in Turkey. Serdar started the hunger strike on July 28, 2001, having been imprisoned since 1992. He was tortured while in prison and was severely injured in the prison massacres by Turkish state forces at Buca prison in 1995 and Bartin in 2000.

Since September 2002, he has been held at the Ankara Numune hospital, where he was force fed. Serdar fell martyr on November 8, 2002.
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