MERDIN, — The indefinite hunger strike launched by the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) and PAJK (Kurdistan Free Women Party) prisoners is entered its 43rd day today.
In support of such a historic campaign the Kurdish deputy from Merdin Gulser Yildirim, who is also imprisoned in E Type Closed Prison in Merdin, has joined the hunger strike.
Together with Yildirim, another deputy, Faysal Sariyildiz, who is in Amed (Diyarbakir) D Type Closed Prison, joined the hunger strike on 15 October.
The demands of the hunger strikers are to arrange conditions of health-security and freedom for Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is held in total isolation for 13 years, and has not meet with his lawyers since 27 July 2011.
The prisoners have also demanded the recognition of Kurdish language to be used in education as well as in the public sphere in North Kurdistan.
The third demand made by the prisoners is in conjunction with the second one; they demand to speak Kurdish in courts and the judges must accept their defence in Kurdish.