Istanbul-Sana
A Turkish lawyer died in a hospital in Istanbul after she went on hunger strike for 238 days following a ruling by the Turkish regime’s judiciary to imprison her for allegedly belonging to what he described as a “terrorist organization”, in new evidence of the extent of the violations committed by this regime against freedoms in all its forms.
Reuters quoted the law firm “People's Law” as saying that attorney Ebru Timtec went on a hunger strike to demand a fair trial, but she died after her heart stopped today.
For its part, international lawyers' rights organizations indicated that Timtec, who has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, and her colleague Aitaj Onsal, entered a hunger strike last April "to support their demand for fair trials and the application of justice in Turkey."
The two lawyers had pledged to continue their hunger strike even if it led to their death, according to a statement by the International Bar Association and other organizations on the 11th of this month.
This is not the first time that Turkish opponents have entered the battle of empty stomachs in the face of the repressive practices of the Turkish regime, as about three thousand prisoners declared a hunger strike in solidarity with the parliamentarian, Leila Guven, who announced a hunger strike in November 2018 to protest against the policies of the president of this regime, Recep Tayyip. Erdogan.
Last April, Turkish singer Helen Pollak died after a hunger strike that lasted about 300 days as part of the Empty Bowl Battle that she announced with her colleague in the Eurom band, the opposition to the Turkish regime, Ibrahim Gökçek, in protest against the repressive policies of Erdogan's regime.