NEWSDESK, — Most of the Kurdish hunger strikers in Turkey’s prisons are entering 48th day of their fasting. Some of them are reported to be at the brink of death.
Turkish government have not met demands made by the hunger strikers which includes the end of isolation to Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan and the use of Kurdish language in defence trial as well as in the public.
The hunger strikers have announced they will continue their campaign unless the Turkish government meets their demands which even according to Amnesty International and Human Rights Organisation in Amed are legitimate and the most basic ones.
Despite the critical health conditions the hunger strikers have turned down offers for medical service provided by the prison clinics.
Among the hunger strikers are two Kurdish deputies from Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), several Kurdish mayors, and numbers of Kurdish journalists.
Turkish government has not taken a single measure to meet the hunger strikers demands, report said, and instead it has in some instances threatened them.
In response to the threats of Turkish government the hunger strikers have raised the slogan of “The Struggle is the Life”, a motto that was coined in Amed prison in the 1980s which has guided the Kurdish resistance against colonialism ever since then.