Hostage Crisis in Prisons Ends

Left-wing Turkish prisoners released all their hostages, ending a five-day siege in protest of the killing of 10 inmates in a shootout with paramilitary police. The Anatolian news agency said the last 17 of more than 70 guards held hostage in Istanbul had been freed. Authorities said Sunday’s raid in Ankara, the capital, was ordered in response to reports that inmates were digging an escape tunnel. Prisoners said it was a pretext for security forces to break up wards that prisoners from leftist and Kurdish groups often run like political indoctrination centers.