In a letter to her family, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputy Gülser Yýldýrým, who is on hunger strike in Mardin E Type Closed Prison, wrote about the ongoing protest by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Party (PAJK) prisoners.

Evaluating the hunger strike as a historic human responsibility, Yýldýrým underlined that she with two other woman comrades (Aynur Coþkun and Fatime Demir) joined the hunger strike as a Kurdish woman, mother and politician.

Pointing out that the medical conditions of fasting prisoners is rapidly deteriorating after 51 days without food, Yýldýrým criticized the silence on the strike. “Considering the fact - she said - that silence will bring along death, we need to rise our voices to support the demands of our comrades. We have always sided with dialogue and peace despite the policy of denial and destruction dating back to the establishment of the Turkish Republic and which continues today with the fascist and nationalist policy of the AKP government”.

Referring to the ongoing isolation on Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, Yýldýrým underlined that the hunger strike by Kurdish youths started as a consequence of the policies the Kurdish people have been subjected to. “Young people are responding to these policies putting their life at risk because we cannot live and defend a life without honor. The hunger strike begun as a contribution to freedom, equality and for the search of a solution and to create an honorable peace between peoples. No matter the price, we will always choose an honorable life instead of a meaningless one.”