{"id":56402,"date":"2020-08-29T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/kurdish-human-rights-lawyer-ebru-timtik-dies-after-238-day-hunger-strike\/"},"modified":"2020-08-29T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T14:02:00","slug":"kurdish-human-rights-lawyer-ebru-timtik-dies-after-238-day-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kurdish-human-rights-lawyer-ebru-timtik-dies-after-238-day-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"#Kurdish human rights lawyer Ebru Timtik dies after 238-day hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Kurdish human rights lawyer Ebru Timtik dies after 238-day hunger strike<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n People mourn as they attend the funeral of Ebru Timtik, a human rights lawyer who died during a hunger strike in a Turkish prison to demand a fair trial for herself and colleagues, in Istanbul<\/span>
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\n A Kurdish-Turkish human rights lawyer has died after a 238-day hunger strike demanding a fair trial for herself and others.<\/p>\n

Ebru Timtik, 42, was one of a group of 18 lawyers known for representing clients critical of the Turkish government who were arrested in September 2017.<\/p>\n

Timtik weighed only 65 pounds when she died in the hospital, where she and her colleague Aytac Unsal were transferred in July after going on hunger strike in Istanbul\u2019s Silivri prison, Deutsche-Welle reported Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mourners who got near a cemetery where Timtik was being buried were tear-gassed by police, according to news<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Timtik\u2019s \u201ctragic\u201d death demonstrated that Turkey needs to \u201ccredibly address\u201d its human rights situation and the \u201cserious shortcomings in the Turkish judiciary,\u201d European Union foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano said.<\/p>\n

International and local groups had called for the lawyers\u2019 release, questioning the impartiality of courts under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s rule.<\/p>\n

Timtik\u2019s death, announced Thursday night, follows similar deaths of two left-wing folk musicians in April and May.<\/p>\n

Her cousin said conditions for Timtik were worse in the hospital than prison, one outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said the light was deliberately left on at night and cold air was constantly blown into Timtik\u2019s room.<\/p>\n

Hospital staffers put Timtik under pressure to end her fast, waking her to offer her food and encouraging her to take medicine.<\/p>\n

Last October, a Turkish app<\/a>eals court had upheld lengthy jail terms imposed on the 18 lawyers, Timtik included, who face multiple charges over alleged links to an outlawed Marxist organization.<\/p>\n

Initially detained in September 2018, Timtik was sentenced to 13 years and six months jail. Unsal was sentenced to more than 10 years.<\/p>\n

In February, Timtik and Unsal started hunger strikes inside Silivri, consuming only liquids and vitamins.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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