Kurdish hunger strikers wait for news from meeting of jailed leader
Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers Party leader Abdullah Ocalan has met for a second time with lawyers as a wide Kurdish hunger strike endangers lives.
![TURKEY-ELECTION/KURDS Leyla Guven, pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker who has been on a hunger strike for more than four months, rests in her bed at her home in Diyarbakir, Turkey, March 20, 2019. Picture taken March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RC1F50CE4990](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2019/05/RTS2F3UJ.jpg/RTS2F3UJ.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=4Ssk210w)
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