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Kurdish woman commits suicide in Gebze prison in protest of solitary confinement

Kurdish woman commits suicide in Gebze prison in protest of solitary confinement

by TurkeyPurge | Mar 24, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

Ayten Beçet, a Kurdish activist who has been held in a prison in Kocaeli’s Gebze prison, committed suicide on Saturday in protest of solitary confinement imposed on Kurdish prisoners across Turkey, including Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan...

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