Fasting to Death: SBS Australia May 2002
In the early 2000s, a group of political prisoners in Turkey initiated a hunger strike to protest the implementation of F-type prisons, which they argued were designed to isolate and break the will of inmates. As the strike escalated into a deadly, long-term protest, the government responded with a violent raid, leading to further deaths and injuries among the prisoners and their supporters. This documentary explores the human cost of this struggle, highlighting the personal stories of those who participated and the families left to cope with the aftermath of a conflict that pitted radical political beliefs against a rigid state system.