Four dead bodies were removed from houses occupied by hunger strikers in Istanbul after riot police raided the premises today, the Anatolianews agency reported.
The report said that the dead bodies were taken to two different hospitals in Istanbul after the operation in the Kucukarmutlu district, on the city's European side.
It was not yet clear who the dead were and how they had died.
Anatoliaadded six people, two of them in a critical condition, were given medical treatment in one of the hospitals.
Security forces entered the Kucukarmutlu district with armoured vehicles and earth-moving machines earlier today, destroying barricades set up in the streets of the quarter.
Earlier reports said three people had been shot and wounded in the police operation.
The raid was aimed at taking out hunger strikers based in two houses in the neighbourhood, where they have been fasting for the past several months in support of a year-old hunger strike in Turkish prisons, Cemal Avci, a lawyer for the protestors said.
AFP