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Old 28th August 2000, 04:57
ProudTurk ProudTurk is offline
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Fehriye Erdal ends 43-day hunger strike in Belgium
'Fehriye Erdal has ended her hunger strike. She has been assigned a new residence and will move there shortly. The address will be kept secret,' ministry spokesman Lieven Van Mele told Reuters

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Brussels - Reuters

Fehriye Erdal, wanted for murder in her homeland of Turkey, ended a 43-day hunger strike on Saturday after Belgian authorities agreed she could serve her house arrest in a new, secret location, the Interior Ministry said.

"Fehriye Erdal has ended her hunger strike. She has been assigned a new residence and will move there shortly. The address will be kept secret," ministry spokesman Lieven Van Mele told Reuters.

Erdal, 23, first began refusing food while in a Belgian prison. She was protesting her continued captivity despite the government's refusal to extradite her to Turkey, where convicted murderers face the death penalty.

Earlier this month she was released from prison and placed under house arrest. But after her supposedly secret location was twice revealed and Turkish journalists turned up on her doorstep in the southern town of Charleroi, Erdal again refused food.

A Belgian military doctor who examined her on Thursday said she faced life-threatening medical complications. She has lost around 13 kilograms and now weighs little more than 41 kilograms. Saturday would have been her 44th day without food.

Erdal, who was arrested in Belgium last September, admits to belonging to the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), which claimed responsibility for killing businessman Ozdemir Sabanci and two colleagues in 1996.

"I am firstly a member of the DHKP/C, a revolutionary," she told De Morgen newspaper in an interview on Saturday. "The party is my family."

Erdal is accused of having used her position as Sabanci's employee to allow gunmen access to his offices. Turkey has demanded her extradition while she maintains her innocence.

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Old 15th February 2002, 17:00
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Belgium is giving a sign. They have the oppotunity now to express their critic on Turkey.
my critic would concern death penalty, the militarist regime and the situation of the courds.
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Old 16th February 2002, 00:28
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Re: 66 Views BUT not a single REPLY WOW ! ...

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Belgium, in central Europe but apparently its people not yet emerged from Dark Ages !.

Nobody seems to know or perhaps care that their country seems to be protesting an International Terrorist and Cold-Blooded Murderer of THREE INNOCENT PEOPLE.

JS (what a name )

Maybe nobody answers because nobody is interested in your allegations.
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