Inmates End 4-Day Standoff With Troops
From Times Wire Reports
Turkish soldiers lobbed tear-gas grenades into a besieged prison, forcing about 430 inmates to surrender and ending a four-day prison standoff that left at least 26 people dead. Inmates in Istanbul’s Umraniye prison were the last to hold out after about 5,000 soldiers stormed 20 prisons Tuesday. The siege was aimed at ending a two-month hunger strike by leftist inmates who had said they would rather die than move from the large wards to small cells, where they fear they will be beaten or tortured.
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