ABDULBAHRI YUSUFOGLU

Died on 20th September after 137 Days on Death Fast

Abdulbari Yusufoglu, 21, died before dawn on Thursday in a house in an Istanbul suburb where some 10 other left-wing militants are also on hunger strike, the prisoner support group Ozgur Tayad told The Associated Press news agency.

Yusufoglu was a member of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, a banned Marxist group.

He died at the death fast house in the Armutlu shanty town in Istanbul and was buried in his home town of Izmir on 21st September.