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Imprisoned PKK Leader Calls For End to Hunger Strikes

Thousands of prisoners in Turkey ended their hunger strikes Sunday that had been mounted to force Turkey to end jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan's isolation at Imrali Island prison. Earlier Sunday, Ocalan's lawyers read a statement from their client calling for an end to the strikes. "I expect the action to come to an end..." Ocalan said in a statement read by one of his lawyers at a press conference in Istanbul. An estimated two to three thousand detainees...


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