DUBLIN, — Kurds in Ireland went on a solidarity hunger strike on Wednesday 7 November outside Irish parliament in support of the PKK and PAJK prisoners who are on an indefinite hunger strike in Turkey’s prisons.
There was a good turnout from both Kurdish and Irish people outside of the Irish parliament. Member of Sinn Feinn Dublin South West TD Seán Crowe and many other republicans’ movements, especially from Colombia Jose Antonio, and Irish citizens showed their solidarity with the Kurds.
Hundreds of Kurdish prisoners held in Turkey’s prisons staged an indefinite hunger strike on 12 September demanding the lift of isolation on the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan and the use of Kurdish language in their defence trials as well as in the public.
Not only the Turkish government has not met the demands made by the Kurdish prisoners, it has in some case threatened them to end their fast.