Turkish inmates take 17 guards hostage

publiziert: Samstag, 28. Okt 2000 / 08:06 Uhr

Ankara - Inmates at a prison in southeastern Turkey took 17 guards hostage Friday to pressure authorities to allow them visits by relatives, reports said.

The hostage-taking came a day after inmates at another prison released 13 guards they had held for four days to demand an amnesty for prisoners. The inmates involved in Friday's hostage-taking are members of Hezbollah, a militant Islamic groups that aims to create an Islamic state in the predominantly Kurdish southeast, the Anatolia news agency reported. Police in the past year have unearthed 60 bodies of people believed to have been killed by Hezbollah members. The inmates were protesting Elazig prison authorities' refusal to allow some inmates to see their families, private NTV channel reported. It was not clear on what basis authorities were refusing family visits. Some 400 military police had been sent to the prison, NTV said, and an official was negotiating with the prisoners.

Hostage-taking and riots are common in Turkey's overcrowded prisons. On Thursday, inmates at southern Adana prison ended their standoff after the government said parliament would look into demands for an amnesty bill that would affect prisoners who have served specified terms for certain crimes. Last year, an amnesty bill that would have freed almost half the country's 74,500 convicts was passed by parliament but vetoed by former President Suleyman Demirel amid public complaints that it would have released murderers and corrupt public officials.

(AP)

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