Word: yucel
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...contrast to the Irish situation, many potential peacemakers are themselves filled with despair. "There is so much ill will that neither side believes compromise is possible," says Orhan Pamuk, a prominent novelist who had offered his services as a negotiator in late 2000. Echoed Yucel Sayman, head of the Istanbul Bar Association: "Both sides have decided that death is the only solution." Local journalists say the public has lost heart and lost interest in the "death fast" and its cultish embrace of morbidity. The strikers appear to have mastered the science of dying, taking liquid and vitamins at a rate...
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