NEWS CENTER - The hunger strike launched against the aggravated isolation in İmralı and increased rights violations in prisons is on its 169th day.

 

The hunger strike launched by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) prisoners on November 27, 2020, demanding an end to the aggravated isolation imposed on PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, who is being held in İmralı F-Type High-Security Closed Prison, and the increasing violations of rights in prisons, continues. While the hunger strike, which continues indefinite-alternate, is entering its 169th day with the 34th group.

 

Rojda Yıldız, who is detained in Sincan Women’s Closed Prison, emphasized in the phone call she made with her family that they will continue their actions until they reach their goals: "Firstly, I greet our resisting people and our friends with respect. You know that the hunger strikes launched in Turkey and Kurdistan prisons are still going on. Our aim in these strikes is to ensure the physical freedom of leader Apo. The Kurdish people also know that the process we are in and that we can find the opportunity to fight, has been formed thanks to the thought and ideology of leader Apo. Today, the occupying system aims to distance us from leader Apo’s thought and philosophy with the isolation in İmralı. However, we will protect these achievements to the end. Our hunger strike actions are also a part of this ownage. We will continue our action until we reach our goal. Firstly, women and youth should stand up for the resistance in prisons. This isolation affects women and young people the most. We greet the leadership’s struggle and say; moment is a moment of freedom, moment is a moment of success."