CALL FOR AWARENESS TO THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKES IN TURKEY
Press Release on Wednesday 24th October 2012 at Downing Street (Prime Minister Office) at 12PM.
AKP Government’s ongoing pressures such as arrestment operations against Kurds and democrats have created a deep political trauma. Kurdish politicians including MPs, mayors and members of city councils, journalists, trade unionists and many other activists from the NGOs have been imprisoned. Majority of them are in hunger strike since 12 September 2012. The hunger strike started in 7 prisons with 63 people. 50 of them are men and 13 of them are women. However, the number of strikers is rapidly rising. More than 600 arrestees and prisoners have attended to the indefinite and irreversible hunger strikes.
Strikers started to the action for the following demands:
1- Education in mother tongue, defense in trials,
2- Respect to Kurdish people’s democratic rights,
3- Freedom for leader of the Kurdish People, Mr. Abdullah Öcalan.
Since 14 October totally 324 captives/prisoners are in the hunger strike without B1 vitamin. 283 of them men and 41 of them are women. It is urgent that, the strikers’ health situation is going worse. AKP government did not make any statement about hunger strike for 41 days. Although all of these insensitivity captives declared that; since Monday 15th October all of captives have started to the indefinite and irreversible hunger strike.
We, as Kurdish Ferderation in Britain, Kurdish Comunity Centre, Halkevi, Roj-Women, Gik-Der, expect awareness and solidarity from our friends, community and the international public opinion about this urgent event.
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