Leyla Guven

Thousands of inmates in Turkish prisons ended their mass hunger strike on Sunday, heeding a calling by militant Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan whose jail conditions they were protesting.

A hunger striking pro-Kurdish lawmaker, Leyla Guven, was released under supervision from prison by a Turkish court and sent home on Friday, after an 11-week fast that has left her gravely…

Thousands demonstrated Saturday in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast to support detained lawmaker Leyla Guven from a pro-Kurdish party who launched a hunger strike in November.