Jailed members of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML) have declared that they have gone on an indefinite hunger strike with turns to support the ongoing hunger strike in prisons.

Over 400 prisoners have been on an indefinite hunger strike without turns in prisons in Turkey since February 15 in order to protest the isolation of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Leader Abdullah Öcalan as well as the military and political operations