The hunger strikes constitute an indication that the Kurdish issue has reached an intolerable level, said Metin Bakkalci, head of the Human Rights Foundation in Turkey. And this sentence has been used as a slogan for the demonstration organized tomorrow in London to support the hundreds of Kurdish political internees, incarcerated for campaigning for Kurdish rights in Turkey who are on day 43 of hunger strike to pressurise the Turkish government to begin political negotiations to resolve the Kurdish Question in Turkey.

In 2009 the Turkish state engaged in talks with the PKK to attempt to resolve the Kurdish issue. Unfortunately, these talks were abruptly brought to an end by the Turkish government and stalled.

The two central demands of the hunger strikers are as follows:

1) The release of Abdullah Ocalan to negotiate a political settlement to the Kurdish Question in Turkey

2) Kurdish language rights in the public sphere.

The demonstration organised by Kurdish Federation UK, Kurdish Community Centre, Halkevi, Roj-Women and Gik-Der will take place outside 10 Downing St, Whitehall at 12 noon.