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DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Mesopotamia Solidarity Committee (BAMSC) will stage a 24-hour fast 
 in solidarity with dissidents Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca and their 
 hunger strike in Turkey. For 24 hours, members and supporters will consume 
 only salt water, sugar, and lemon while sharing information to raise 
 awareness about the strikers, their demands, and developments in the 
 region.\n \nSUNDAY: MAY 21, 2016\n\nPOWELL BART STATION 
 9:00AM-6:00PM\n\nBay Area Mesopotamia Solidarity Committee (BAMSC) will 
 stage a 24-hour fast in solidarity with dissidents Nuriye Gulmen and Semih 
 Ozakca and their hunger strike in Turkey. For 24 hours, members and 
 supporters will consume only salt water, sugar, and lemon while sharing 
 information to raise awareness about the strikers, their demands, and 
 developments in the region. Gulmen and Ozakca's hunger strike began on 
 March 9 in response to the ongoing State of Emergency and purge of 145,000 
 public sector workers by authoritarian president Recep Tayyip Erdogan 
 following last year's failed coup. Thousands of journalists, academics, 
 dissidents, and civilians have also been arrested in the crackdown, with 
 dozens killed by state forces. On May 13, thousands in Turkey and abroad, 
 including four opposition parliamentarians, joined Gulmen and Ozakca in a 
 one-day solidarity fast similar to that planned by BAMSC.\n\nLiterature 
 professor Gulmen and primary school teacher Ozakca lost their jobs in the 
 purge. Since their dismissal, they have led an ongoing public demonstration 
 in Ankara, which has been repeatedly evicted and assaulted by police. They 
 began their hunger strike along with 73-year-old Kemal Gun of Dersim, who 
 demanded the state return the body of his son, a leftist guerrilla whose 
 hideout was bombed by government forces. The governor of Tunceli announced 
 on May 15 that his body would be returned. \n\nGulmen and Ozakca's demands 
 are as follows:\n \n1 – That the State of Emergency be lifted.\n \n2 – 
 That the public sector workers dismissed from their jobs and/or arrested be 
 returned to their positions.\n \n3 – That at-will and unlawful dismissals 
 be stopped.\n \n4 – Job security for the 13,000 Teaching Fellows Program 
 members dismissed in the purge.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/20/18799592.php
SUMMARY:Bay Area Mesopotamia Solidarity Committee (BAMSC) to Stage 24-hour Hunger Strike
LOCATION:Powell Bart Station in San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/20/18799592.php
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