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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7968

19 May 2001
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/turkish prisons
Council, Commission and Parliament all interested in putting an end to the crisis that has already left 22 dead

Strasbourg, 18/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - A few weeks before the visit that a European Parliament delegation is to make to Turkish prisons, the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council and the European Commission briefed MEPs on Wednesday on their latest contacts with the Turkish authorities over the hunger strike in prisons and the repression that, for some months now, has already led to twenty-two deaths. The Council, said Lars Danielsson, had asked the Turkish authorities, in the framework of...

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