Hakan Tunç, on remand in Van Type T Closed Prison, has launched an indefinite hunger strike ten days ago against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and to demand an end to rights violations in prisons. Tunç has been held in solitary confinement for six months, and told his family that he is resolute.

Tunç told his family: “My priority is the lifting of the isolation imposed upon the Leader and an end to rights violations in prisons. I am held in solitary confinement due to arbitrary practices. I do not accept the slavery imposed upon me by the prison administration and I am laying my body down to die.”

BROTHER TUNÇ: “THERE ARE CONSTANT RIGHTS VIOLATIONS”

Hakan Tunç’s brother Mehmet Tunç said: “There are constant rights violations in prisons. When we go in for visits, they don’t allow us in as a family. They let us in one by one, that’s the only way we can visit. When we are in, the guards constantly stand by us. The letters my brother sends don’t reach us, and he doesn’t get the ones we write.”