[Rudaw] Istanbul police fired teargas and chased away hundreds of mourners on Friday during the burial of a lawyer who died on the 238th day of a hunger strike she staged to protest her jailing on terror charges.
| Timtik was a member of the Contemporary Lawyers' Association (CHD), a group accused of having close ties to the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), a far-left Marxist organization. |
Friends said Ebru Timtik weighed just 30 kilogrammes at the time of her death late Thursday, which drew condemnation from Ottoman Turkish opposition parties, international lawyers associations and the EU.
Police fired teargas as Timtik's friends and supporters approached a cemetery on the northern edge of Istanbul where her body was buried, an AFP team on the ground said. |