Ayse Bastimur

Died on 28th September after 341 days on hunger strike

Ayse Bastimur died on Friday 28th Septmeber, in Ankara, becoming the 40th person to die in the eleven-month hunger strike by Turkish prisoners and their relatives opposing the new maximum-security isolation prisons .

Ayse began her hunger strike in Canakkale prison. She was later transferred to Kutahya prison. After being conditionally released she continued her Death Fast in Ankara, next to Özlem Durakcan. They died within hours of each other.

At the funerals of Ayse and Özlem Durakcan 100 persons were been arrested in Ankara. According to information received the police have captured and taken away the dead bodies of both women.