thousands of Kurds have ended their hunger strike in Turkey. They followed a call to the PKK founder Ocalan, against his conditions of detention, they had been on strike.
Leyla Güven Parliament deputies of the pro-Kurdish HDP in Turkey. For a year, the 55-year-old in Diyarbakir was in prison. You should be, like so many, a member of a terrorist organization, for the prohibited Kurdish PKK Propaganda have made.
Finally, she went on a hunger strike to Protest against the solitary confinement of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. In January, she was released from custody, her hunger strike went on until today.
Guven leaves the house in a wheelchair. She is wearing a neck brace. Her face under the short grey hair is pale and small. While she’s talking to, to fall to her again and again the dark eyes: “I wish we could have success without losing someone. We feel sorrow in our hearts, but the resistance has won. The prisoners have won.”
she looks weak and shows still combative, collects laboriously the Hand for the Peace sign surrounded by supporters.
Leyla Güven ended their hunger strike.
thousands of Kurds on hunger strike
Leyla Güven was the first one that went in November on a hunger strike. Thousands of Kurdish prisoners in Turkey and abroad, had followed her, said the HDP. Eight people would have taken even the life, including a man in Krefeld.
All end the hunger strike. Following a call from Öcalan, his lawyer Newroz Uysal in Istanbul read: “Comrades, I call on all who are in hunger strike and death fast bound, to put an end to their action. The goal of Your action is reached definitely. I send you my love and my thanks.”
Öcalan was sentenced in 1999 to life imprisonment.
Council of Europe, prison conditions
the aim of the action of the hunger strike criticized was to end the solitary confinement of Ocalan on the prison island of Imrali near Istanbul. There Öcalan from sitting for 20 years of a life sentence for treason. In January, he got for the first Time in two years to visit his brother. At the beginning of the month for him to meet his lawyers for the first Time in eight years.
even then, the 71-Year-old appealed to the hunger strikers not to endanger their health. Shortly thereafter, a court lifted the visiting ban for his lawyers quite. The Anti-torture Committee of the Council of Europe had previously examined several Turkish prisons and conditions of detention criticised by Öcalan.
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