Ankara - A Turkish jail hunger-strike in protest at prison reforms has claimed its fourth victim, a human rights activist said yesterday.
"Gulsuman Ada Donmez died in hospital in Istanbul on Monday. She was in her 30s and was on hunger-strike for 147 days to support her jailed brother," a spokeswoman from the Turkish Human Rights Association said.
Since March 21st three prisoners have starved to death. According to the human rights association between 500 and 1,000 inmates are still on hunger-strike, with some 120 in critical condition.
Meanwhile, in Strasbourg the European Court of Human Rights said that Turkey had violated the right to life in 1994 after a 22-yearold Kurd died during a police interrogation.