Grup Yorum bassist and protester İbrahim Gökçek died in hospital after 323-day fast
A second member of a leftwing popular folk
music group banned in
Turkey has died after a hunger strike in protest of the government’s crackdown on the band, the group .
The group, Grup Yorum, said on Thursday its bass guitarist İbrahim Gökçek, 41, had died in a hospital in Istanbul. He was placed in intensive care after he abandoned his hunger strike two days ago. He had been fasting for 323 days.