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The Turkish regime's police used tear gas and chased hundreds of mourners during the funeral ceremony of a lawyer who died in one of the regime's prisons after a long hunger strike that lasted 238 days in protest against the unfair ruling of her conviction on alleged terrorism charges.
According to Agence France-Presse, the Turkish regime's police fired tear gas while the family and friends of the late lawyer, "Ebro Temtec", were approaching a cemetery in northern Istanbul, while the mourners chanted "The murderous state is responsible" after they put her lawyer gown and flowers on her grave.
Erdogan's police threatened to attack the mourners and chase them after the funeral ceremony, and arrested a young boy.
Friends of Temtec, "42," said that she weighed only 30 kilograms at the time of her death yesterday evening, which sparked strong condemnation from the opposition parties in Turkey, international law associations and the European Union.
For his part, European Union spokesman Peter Stano pointed out that Temtec's death reveals "serious deficiencies in the Turkish judicial system," adding that "her hunger strike to obtain a fair trial and its tragic outcome illustrates painfully the Turkish authorities' urgent need to address the human rights situation in the country."
Temtec, who has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, and her colleague Aitag Onsal went on hunger strike last April “to support their demand for fair trials and the application of justice in Turkey.
This is not the first time that Turkish opponents have entered the battle of empty stomachs in the face of the oppressive practices of the Turkish regime, as about three thousand prisoners declared a hunger strike in solidarity with the parliamentarian, Leila Guven, who declared a hunger strike in November 2018 to protest against the regime's policies.
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.