Kurdish Hungerstriker Dies In Berli

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Subject: Re: Kurdish Hungerstriker Dies In Berlin

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Hunger Strike Claims Kurd, 41

Activists in Germany press for end of war

Bonn, Germany (Toronto Star via Reuter - July 28, 1995) A woman
on a hunger strike died in Berlin yesterday amid a wave of
protests and attacks on Turkish properties in Germany that police
have linked to Kurdish activists.
     Police said the dead woman was among a group of several
hundred Kurds in Germany showing solidarity with imprisoned
members of the separtist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in
Turkey.
     A Belgian-based Kurdish organization, in a statement
distributed in Germany, named the dead woman as Gulnaz Bagiztani,
41, and said she had been on the hunger strike for eight days.
     Imprisoned PKK members, who are fighting an 11-year battle
for independence or autonomy in southeast Turkey, started the
hunger strike on July 14 to demand Anakara open talks to end the
war.
     Ankara has not yet responded to the hunger strike.
     The pro-Kurdish newspaper Yeni Politika said hundreds of
Kurds in Europe were also on sympathy hungerstrikes or had
occupied buildings in support.
     Between 8,000 and 10,000 people in 22 Turkish jails joined
the hungerstrike, the Human Rights Association of Turkey said.
     Turkish Kurds in Germany and Britain have protested over
various Kurdish issues this week.
     Police detained about 80 Kurds in Frankfurt as they broke up
a week-long vigil for displaying the symbols of the PKK, which is
banned in Germany for extremism.
     Eight Turkish properties were firebombed during the night in
Germany.
     It was the third consecutive night of such attacks, and
police said some of the incidents were the work of the PKK.
     Prosecutors in the south-western city of Stuttgart said
police had detained five suspects after a firebombing in the town
of Villingen-Schweningen took the total of such attacks in the
area in the last three days to 12.
     Two Kurds made confessions that indicated "the majority or
all of the attacks were probably masterminded by the banned
Kurdistan Workers' Party", a police spokesperson said.
     Interior Minister Manfred Kanther called on Kurds living in
Germany not to support political extremists.
     "We must proceed against PKK terror with resolve and
determination", he said in a statement.
     Stuttgart investigators have linked some of the attacks to
the planned extradition to Germany from Britain of PKK member
Kani Yilmaz, who has been given 14 days to return to Germany.
     Bonn is seeking Yilmaz on suspicion of helping to organize,
as European head of the PKK, the series of Europe-wide attacks on
Turkish properties in 1993 and 1994 that led to the banning of
the PKK in Germany.

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