ISTANBUL, Turkey — Soldiers smashed through prison walls to battle radical leftist inmates reportedly armed with guns and makeshift flame-throwers as the fight for control of Tur-key's prisons entered its second day Wednesday. At least 19 people were dead, and the European Commission warned that Turkey's tactics were once again calling into question the country's human rights record. Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk urged inmates in Istanbul's Umraniye prison and a penitentiary in the western city of Canakkale to surrender. But the inmates, most linked to an armed left-wing group, remained defiant. Inmates have vowed to burn themselves alive if attacked, and several of the at least 17 inmates who died Tuesday had set themselves on fire. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said Tuesday's raids on 18 other prisons had been successful in ending a two-month prisoner hunger strike and giving authorities control of the wards. Turkish prisoners often live in wards of up to 100 prisoners. Prisoners from political groups often run their wards like indoctrination centers decorated with rebel flags and slogans painted on the walls. The government has started to break up the wards by moving prisoners to individual cells