The Turkish hunger strike is the longest and now the deadliest hunger strike against a government in modern history. The striker's main demands are abandonment by the government of the new Turkish prisons, in which the inmates are kept in one to three man cells. The strikers feel these modern prisons are just another way for the government to isolate and torture the prisoners. In addition to abandoning the new prison plans, the workers want an international monitoring committee to be sure the government is complying. There are three different houses full of hunger strikers, all in various stages...