As the massive hunger strike of political prisoners in over 20 prisons across Turkey continues, more inmates are joining the strike which demands an end to the isolation imposed upon the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, rights violations in prisons, rights violations during the State of Emergency and the blockade on Kurdish cities.

Political prisoners in Kocaeli Kandıra Prison have started an indefinite and alternate hunger strike on April 10, yesterday. Dersim Co-mayor Nurhayat Altun is among the participants of the 5-day-long alternating hunger strike.