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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7759

15 July 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/turkey
Mr Korakas writes to Ms Fontaine calling on her to urge Turkish authorities to carry out prison reform and release political prisoners

Brussels, 14/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - "We have just learnt that, on 5 July 2000, further to an attack by Turkish policy forces in the Burdur prison, sixteen prisoners were seriously wounded and some were then either transferred to other prisons in Turkey or held in isolation chambers where they were tortured", writes Efstratios Korakas (GUE/NGL-KKE, Greece) in a letter addressed to European Parliament President Nicole Fontaine. Speaking of "atrocious pictures, published recently in...

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