For twenty-five years there has been an ongoing conflict between the Turkish and Kurdish people of Turkey. This article is connects one recent event of Kurdish prisoners going on a hunger strike, to emphasize the author's logos. The hunger strike's short term cause was bad conditions within a prison, however long term the Kurdish have long felt denied certain rights within the country. The authors logos is that the Kurdish people have been dealing with these inequalities for too long. So long in fact that the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) has petitioned to leave Turkey and create a homeland for the Kurdish people. The hunger strike shows, what desperate measures the Kurdish people are willing to take. The strike has just ended after lasting for over two months (68 days); doctors said that majority of the prisoners were near death. And even though the strike is over and the man in charge of the prison has been sent to jail, there has still been no guarantee that conditions within the prison will change.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20386073
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