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Halil Yakut, who is on a hunger strike demanding to be transferred to another prison, stated, "While the real culprits of the earthquake are not being prosecuted and the detained contractors are being released, I, an earthquake survivor, have been imprisoned."
Police raids and arrests have expanded after May Day protests in Istanbul. Political prisoners subjected to isolation and ill-treatment are on hunger strike.
Inspired by examples of human heroism, Sicilian bassist leads a set that variously recalls Louis Sclavis and Bill Frisell
Activist and musician Helin Bolek, member of the popular group Grup Yorum, died at the beginning of April after nearly nine months on hunger strike. She fell victim both to oppression at the hands of the Turkish state and a hostile cult of martyrdom present on the Turkish and Kurdish left, argues Tayfun Guttstadt