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AMED - While Democratic Society Congress (DTK) co-chair and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Hakkari MP Leyla Guven has reached day 182 of her hunger strike demanding the end of isolation against People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, the death fast reached 10th day. HDP member Nasır Yağız has reached day 170 of...

NEWS DESK - Nobel Prize Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel wrote a letter on behalf of the 40 Nobel Laureates (who had written to the CPT before) expressing their concern for Abdullah Ocalan and demanding the CPT to act on isolation. Esquivel, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980,...

KOCAELI - The hunger strike resistance demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, continue in prison and outside. The resistance led by HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has spread to all prisons on 1 March. Women prisoners on hunger strike in Gebze wrote a letter to...

NEWPORT - Imam Şiş, who has been on hunger strike for 142 days in Newport, Wales, demanding the end of isolation said he will continue his fast until isolation is lifted. Imam Şiş has reiterated his determination in continuing the hunger strike until isolation is lifted. While recognising the visit...

STRASBOURG - 14 Kurdish activists have been on an indefinite hunger strike in the French city of Strasbourg since 17 December 2018 demanding the end of the isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan. The fast of the Strasbourg activists is on day 144. Although the health condition of...

NEWS DESK - 15 more prisoners will participate in the death fast resistance that started on 30 April demanding the end of the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. PKK and PAJK prisoners issued a written statement confirming that 15 prisoners will go on death fast on 10 May....

ATHENS - The vigil launched in Greek capital Athens to protest the isolation of People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and to call attention to the hunger strike protests, continues on the 5th day. The vigil promoted by the Greek Action Union Northern Kurdistan-Turkey Platform is held at the Syntagma Square. A...

ANKARA - The Monitoring Committee, which was established to monitor isolation and hunger strikes, submitted a report to the Ministry of Justice. The report noted that the situation has gone beyond the critical threshold and that isolation should be lifted immediately. The Human Rights Association (IHD), the Human Rights Foundation...

NEWPORT - Imam Şiş has been on hunger strike for 143 days in Newport, Wales, demanding the end of isolation said he will continue his fast until isolation is lifted. Imam Şiş, while recognising the visit granted to lawyers to People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan is a very big step and...

ISTANBUL - Zozan Çiçek is one of the 15 prisoners on death fast since 30 April demanding the end of isolation against People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan. Çiçek said they owe this resistance to the martyrs of freedom. On 6 May lawyers from Asrin Legal Office held a press conference to...