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Inside Europe: Support for hunger strikers in Turkey

Dorian Jones
August 25, 2017

In Turkey, it’s now 5 months since a professor and school teacher went on hunger strike. Both are protesting their dismissal as part of a nationwide government crackdown after last year’s failed coup. Over 150 thousand people have lost their jobs. The hunger strikers are now in jail charged as terrorists. But support for them appears to be growing, as Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul.

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