Several hunger strikes were undertaken in Turkey from 2016 to 2017. In Turkey, the hunger strike has been used as a form of resistance historically, however...
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The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest...
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strikes, series of strikes by public sector workers in Turkey over wages. 1996 prisoners' hunger strike in Turkey 2000–03 prisoners' hunger strike in...
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Timeline of the Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency (2015–present) (redirect from Turkey–PKK conflict (2015–present))
incident (2015's Casus belli) Hunger strikes in Turkey (2016-2017) Kurdish political violence Şırnak clashes (2015–2016) 2015 Hakkari assault West Iran...
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Imprisonment of Abdullah Öcalan (category Human rights in Turkey)
In later years, hunger strikes were held demanding an end to Öcalan's solitary confinement. In September 2012, some prisoners began a hunger strike,...
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Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency (redirect from War in South-East Turkey)
artillery strikes in the region, and its influence in Syrian Kurdistan has led to similar activity there. The conflict has cost the economy of Turkey an estimated...
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for improved prison conditions for which they frequently went on hunger strikes In April 1991 Law 3713 on Fighting Terrorism (called Anti-Terror-Law...
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Timeline of the Syrian civil war (section SDF advances; Turkish military intervention begins in northern Syria: Operation Euphrates Shield (August 2016–January 2017))
that culminated in the Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor offensives, the Islamic State was territorially defeated by late 2017. In August 2016, Turkey launched a multi-pronged...
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is a 2014 American dystopian action film. The sequel to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), it is the third installment...
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employees to work. This can include wildcat strikes, which are done without union authorisation, and slowdown strikes, where workers reduce their productivity...
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Hatay and jailed in Mugla. He was in Turkey in order to write a book on the war in Syria. He went on hunger strike on April 18, 2017. Defamation and libel...
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prisoners' hunger strike in Turkey, in protest against prison conditions. 1990s Donbas miners' strikes 1989 Highland Valley strike, 3-and-a-half month strike by...
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Duran Kalkan (category Hunger strikes)
arrested in 1988 and prosecuted during the Kurdish trial in Düsseldorf, Germany. In pre-trial detention in Hamburg he made a hunger strike which lasted...
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Rojava conflict (redirect from Kurdish participation in the Syrian civil war)
January 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016. "Turkish Air Strikes in Syria Kill 25 Kurdish Militants, Says Military". 28 August 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016 –...
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Syrian civil war (redirect from 2017 Tabqh airstrike)
that culminated in the Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor offensives, the Islamic State was territorially defeated by late 2017. In August 2016, Turkey launched a multi-pronged...
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Rohingya genocide (redirect from 2017 Rohingya persecution in Myanmar)
crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. The crisis forced over a million Rohingya...
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Grup Yorum (category 1985 establishments in Turkey)
group died of hunger strike over the Turkish state’s treatment. Yorum remains popular and their albums continue to sell well in Turkey and internationally...
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deaths in custody (in 15 years) with a suspicion that torture might have been the reason. Another 15 deaths were attributed to hunger strikes while medical...
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hunger-strikers to end their strike, stating it had achieved its goals. 18 November In response to Öcalan's call to end the hunger strikes, the inmates' spokesman...
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Party/Front (Turkish: Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi or DHKP-C) is a Turkish Marxist–Leninist communist party in Turkey. It was founded in 1978 as...
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Hacı Karay (category Missing person cases in Turkey)
1993, he participated in the action of closing shops in Yüksekova in support of the hunger strikes staged at Diyarbakır Prison. He had connections to Savaş...
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Ill-Treatment in Turkey in June 2017. The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey estimates there are around one million victims of torture in Turkey. The history...
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insurgency in Turkey, referred by the Maoists as the People's War (Turkish: Halk savaşı), is an ongoing low-level insurgency in eastern Turkey between the...
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Leyla Güven (category Hunger strikers)
figure in the Kurdish-Turkish peace process, About 250 political prisoners joined Güven with an indefinite hunger strike. During her hunger strike she only...
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Serhildan (redirect from Kurdish protests in Turkey)
several thousand Kurds held a protest march in Diyarbakır in support of a hunger strike held in Turkish prisons by Kurdish political prisoners. The protesters...
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17 March 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-03-17. Retrieved 2017-03-17. Ahrenheim, Anna (17 March 2017). "Netanyahu: Syrian strikes were to block...
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rebels in Aleppo". 27 December 2016. Archived from the original on 7 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2017 – via Japan Times Online. "The Latest: Turkey wants...
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AirDrop (section Use in protests)
the AirDrop function in China just weeks before 2022 COVID-19 protests in China. The AirDrop restrictions triggered a hunger strike at Apple's headquarters...
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Bana al-Abed (category Syrian emigrants to Turkey)
of these tweets have documented issues such as airstrikes, destruction, hunger, displacement, the prospect of her and her family's death, her longing for...
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Abdullah Zeydan (category Politicians arrested in Turkey)
strike in protest of the detention conditions in March 2017. He also joined a hunger strike in protest of the detention conditions of Abdullah Öcalan...
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