Meryem Altun (1976 – April 1, 2002) was a

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prisoner who died on

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. She attended Umraniye high school, was a critic of the Turkish prison system, She was declared a martyr by the Revolutionary People's Liberation Front. Altun was in Umraniye prison at the time of a December 19, 2000 massacre of prisoners by

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