NORTH KURDISTAN, — The indefinite hunger strike led by the prisoners of PKK and PAJK in Turkish prisons has been going on since 15 February. The hunger strikers demand the freedom of Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan.
According to local sources 500 more prisoners joined the strike increasing the number of strikers from 1,500 to 2000 persons.
In a statement on the hunger strikers’ demand, and on the behalf of the prisoners Deniz Kaya said the followings:
“The police-soldier terror on our people, institutions and their workers continue uninterruptedly despite all the calls we have made so far. Still, the Turkish state and the AKP government have not given an end to the attacks on our leader and people; they have on the contrary disallowed our people to celebrate their day and attacked Newroz celebrations, made rehearsals for mass slaughter, ravenously attacked civilian and defenseless people and didn’t not abstain from manifesting its racist and massacre face by leading to the dead of a patriotic Kurdish citizen, injury of dozens of people and arrest of hundreds of people.”