>From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" HUNGER STRIKERS CAN DIE >Selection: > >ANADOLU AGENCY NEWS > > 25 DECEMBER 2000 Monday > Turkey > > >SABAH >ALL PRISONS WILL BE F TYPE >Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that amnesty is an opportunity >to improve the prison system in Turkey. ''Efforts will be speeded up >to transfer the ward system into room system in all prisons,'' said >Turk. > >MILITARY SAYS TURKEY CAN JOIN EU IN 2010 >A group of high ranking military officials from France came to Turkey >last month. French military officials asked their Turkish counterparts >when Turkey will be ready for EU. Turkish military officials said that >the preparations can last for 10 years. > >CUMHURIYET >----------------- >TURK SPEAKS >Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk staged a press conference at the >Justice Ministry about the interventions in 20 prisons held between >December 19-22 that were called ''Operation Return to Life''. Turk >said that the operation would always be mentioned as one of the great >successes of cooperation among state units. Turk said that security >forces and gendarmerie had successfully concluded this perfectly >organized operation by respecting human life. > >HUNGER STRIKERS CAN DIE >Selcuk KozagaclI, a lawyer who visited Sincan F type prison yesterday >said that the condition of nearly 70 hunger strikers is very critical. > >''Mass deaths are coming,'' he said claiming that some inmates might >have died because of the strike and this could have been hided from >public. > >RADIKAL >-------------- >NUMBER OF DEATH FASTERS INCREASES >Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk called on those who are on hunger >strike and death fast to give up their protest. Before the operation >return to life was staged, 290 of inmates were on death fast and 800 >of them were on hunger strike. Now the former increased to 353 and the >latter increased to 2,184. > > >-BOMB ATTACKS STAGED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF ISTANBUL >ISTANBUL - The bomb attacks staged on two Automatic Telling Machines >(ATMs) of banks caused material damage in Istanbul on Sunday. > >Unknown assailants placed a bomb in ATM of Pamukbank in Sisli district >which later exploded. No casualties were reported, but there is >material damage in the ATM. Experts said that the bomb was a hand >made, time bomb. > >A molotov cocktail was put in the ATM of Demirbank branch in Esenler >district. The fire that broke out due to the explosion was >extinguished by citizens. > >Police started an investigation in the two districts to capture the >assailants. > >Meanwhile other assailants placed bombs in a bank and in front of the >garage gate of a flat in Maltepe district. The explosions caused >material damage in both buildings. > >Officials said that the target of the attack can be the Liberal >Democrat Party's Maltepe centre which was beside the garage. > >Experts said that the bomb was hand made and pipe bomb. > >ZAMAN >------------------------- >-12 MORE INMATES DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL >ISTANBUL/KADIKOY - Twelve more inmates who were injured and >hospitalized during the operation return to life staged in Umraniye >prison were discharged from hospital on Sunday. > >The inmates who were treated at Haydarpasa Numune Hospital were >discharged from hospital and sent to another prison. > >The treatment of nine other inmates in the prison continues. > >Tight security measures have been taken by police in Haydarpasa Numune >Hospital and relatives of patients are not still allowed to enter the >hospital. > >-NUMBER OF INMATES WHO WERE TRANSFERRED TO F >TYPE PRISON IN KOCAELI, INCREASES TO 357 >IZMIT - Number of inmates who have been transferred to the F type >prison in northwestern Kocaeli province following last week's >intervention in prisons, increased to 357. > >Sources told the A.A correspondent on Monday that transfer of 357 >members of terrorist organizations from Bayrampasa, Bursa, Gebze, >Canakkale and Umraniye prisons to F type prison in Kocaeli was >concluded. > >The F type prison in Kocaeli has a capacity of 368 inmates. > >-- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey >http://www.ozgurluk.org >DHKC: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for geopolitics. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
