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hunger strike

 
 
noun [C, U]

Translation

when someone refuses to eat in order to show that they strongly disagree with something
açlık grevi
The prisoners went on hunger strike.4
(Definition of hunger strike noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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