NEWSDESK, — Numbers of Kurdish civil and political activists along with some journalists have in a written statement expressed their support for the indefinite hunger strike launched by the PKK and PAJK prisoners in North Kurdistan.
“Kurdistan is single bulk,” reads the statement, “whose wide contour is grief stricken and whose outcry can be heard far away.”
“More than 10,000 Kurdish civil/political activists and journalists imprisoned in Turkish prisons have staged a hunger strike. Dozens of them have passed their 40th day of the strike reaching stage of death or serious physical damages,” the statement added.
Pointing to the demands of the hunger strikes the statement outlined; “The hunger strikers want a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue. They also want freedom of Abdullah Ocalan to play his role in prevention of bloodshed and promotion of democratic settlement. Added to this they demand the use of mother tongue in defence trails.”
Questioning the approaches Turkish government has taken in dealing with prisoners as well as the Kurdish issue the statement remarked; “Despite that Turkish government has not yielded to their demands, it has also stressed the path toward war and bloodshed. On the other hand by putting pressures on the political prisoners, it wants to make them give in and deprive them of the right to self-defence.”
Expressing their support for the hunger strikes they observed; “along with our outright support for the hunger strikers and their demands, we warn Turkish government that it no longer can continue its policies of denial and killing [of Kurds]. It should yield to demands made by the hunger strikers and to release thousands of political and civil activists. It should respect their wills, and by the cessation of war and bloodshed, it should take measures toward a democratic and peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue.”