61.   A leftist prisoner succumbed to his injuries Thursday after setting himself on fire last month during clashes in two Turkish prisons, Anatolia news agency reported.

62.   According to a German source, the group was on a mission to examine Turkish prison conditions in the area.

63.   The prisoners, refusing to participate in a head count, were in particular protesting several recent deaths in various Turkish prisons.

64.   The self-immolation bid, came on the second day of a three-day hunger strike launched on Friday in Turkish prisons in protest at the Diyarbakir violence.

65.   The uprising and hostage-taking by inmates of Turkish prisons ended Tuesday in several jails, a justice ministry spokesman said.

66.   The seven Germans were on a mission to examine Turkish prison conditions in the area, according to a German Communist party.

67.   The three Germans were on a mission to examine Turkish prison conditions in the area, according to a German source.

68.   The United States offered regrets Thursday for the death of six hunger strikers protesting conditions in Turkish prisons but said it was an domestic matter.

69.   Twenty-eight separatist Kurdish rebels fled from a southern Turkish prison through a tunnel, a government official said Saturday.

70.   Thirty-seven among hundreds of hunger-striking inmates in two dozen Turkish prisons around the country have been hospitalized, the Turkish media reported Monday.