TURKEY: ISTANBUL. Hunger strike. 2001. Family and friends visiting Umus SAHINGOZ , who later died after hungerstriking for more than 300 days. THE LONGEST HUNGER STRIKE IN MODERN HIST (PAR215096)

Paolo Pellegrin
Magnum Photos
01-01-2001



TURKEY: ISTANBUL. Hunger strike. 2001.
Family and friends visiting Umus SAHINGOZ , who later died after hungerstriking for more than 300 days.

THE LONGEST HUNGER STRIKE IN MODERN HISTORY The Turkish hunger strike is the longest and now the deadliest hunger strike against a government in modern history. The striker's main demands are abandonment by the government of the new Turkish prisons, in which the inmates are kept in one to three man cells. The strikers feel these modern prisons are just another way for the government to isolate and torture the prisoners. In addition to abandoning the new prison plans, the strikers want an

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