ILPS released statement supporting hunger strikers

ILPS released statement supporting hunger strikers

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) has issued a press statement in solidarity with Kurdish political prisoners on hunger strike in Turkish jails.

In the statement the ILPS (an alliance of more than 300 mass organizations in over 40 countries in Asia, Africa, North America, Latin America and Europe) said it "fully supports the just struggle of the Kurdish people for national self-determination and to the exercise of their collective rights in the social, economic, political and cultural spheres".

The ILPS "calls on all the member organizations of the ILPS and all people of goodwill to show their support to the hunger strikers by sending solidarity messages and doing solidarity actions condemning the repressive measures of the Turkish state and supporting the specific demands of the hunger strikers and their general demand for the exercise of the right of the Kurdish people to national self-determination".