Protest Vigil on Turkish Hunger Strike

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday March 11, 2002 18:29 by Mags - Solidarity with Hunger Strikers in Turkey thsireland at hotmail dot com

Death of Yusuf Kutlu - Protest in Dublin Tuesday 12th March - 6pm at Turkish Embassy

Solidarity with Hunger Strikers in Turkey

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We have received information on the death of another hunger striker in Turkey. Yusuf Kutlu died in Ankara on Saturday 9th March 2002.

A protest will take place at the Turkish Embassy (11 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge) in Dublin on Tuesday 12th March at 6pm. All activists and groups welcome.

Buses: Bus No 7 from O Connell Street, get off a Jury's Hotel. Clyde Road is located behind the American Embassy. Nearest DART is Lansdowne Road.

Below are biographical details of Yusuf Kutlu
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Yusuf Kutlu is the 86 martyr. He died after 279 days on Death Fast and was from the 5th group. He died in a hospital in Ankara.

He was born in 1973 in Hatay and was an ethnic Arab. He was from DHKP-C and was arrested in 1994
and had served time in prisons in Malatya and Bartin. After the massacre on December 19th he was transferred to Sincan F-type prison.

He died at 16:45 on March 9th on the 505th day of the Death Fast.