Ebru Timtik had been held in the Silivri Prison and Courthouse complex in Silivri, near Istanbul AFP/Ozan KOSEISTANBUL: A Turkish lawyer seeking a fair trial after being charged with membership of a terrorist organisation has died in an Istanbul hospital on the 238th day of her hunger strike.
The DHKP-C has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly attacks in Turkey, including a 2013 suicide bombing at the US embassy in Ankara, which killed a Turkish security guard. Timtik, who had been initially detained in September 2018, was sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison, which prompted her and some other lawyers to start a hunger strike in February.Last October, an appeals court upheld the lawyers' jail sentences.
The pair were consuming only liquids and vitamins, and a forensic report showed at the time that their condition was"not suitable" for a continued stay in prison.After the forensic lab, around 300 people arrived at the Alevi worshipping house on the northern edge of Istanbul where a funeral ceremony was being held.
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