Word: cengizer
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...what will the deaths of Cengiz Soydas and his - so far - 44 Turkish comrades come to mean? Soydas died last March, on the 150th day of a prison "death fast" begun in October 2000. A 29-year-old university student who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for membership in a violent leftist organization, Soydas was the first to die. Other prisoners and some outside supporters joined him in protest and, later, in death. According to the Turkish Justice Ministry, slightly more than 100 people are now on hunger strike in a dozen prisons...