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Kurdish prisoner dies while on hunger strike

The Kur­dish pris­oner Zülküf Gezen, who was serv­ing a life sen­tence in Turkey, died on Sun­day night while on hunger strike. Many Kur­dish pris­on­ers are on hunger strike to de­mand an end to the iso­la­tion of the leader of the Kur­dis­tan Work­ers’ Party (PKK), Ab­dul­lah Ocalan. Ocalan has been in prison on the is­land of Im­rali, near Is­tan­bul, since 1999, where he is the only pris­oner.

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