Prisoners association ready to go on hunger strike
Prisoners association ready to go on hunger strike
Prisoners' Families Federation (TUHAD-FED) in Ankara held a public meeting on about Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
The meeting started with a message of support for PKK and PAJK prisoners who have been on an indefinite hunger strike in 13 prisons since 12 September to protest against the isolation imposed on the Kurdish leader.
Speaking at the public meeting at the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) office in Çankaya/Ankara, TUHAD-FED member Mehmet Baytekin said that TUHAD-FED Ankara office could also start a hunger strike if such was the demand coming from prisoners families as long as the current situation in prisons continues.
Baytekin underlined that TUHAD-FED Ankara organization doesn’t accept the isolation on which he said the AKP mentality has been insisting regardless of all goodwill gestures of Öcalan and the Kurdish people. “The government started a great political slaughter against Kurds to isolate them from legal politics in the scope of the war concept it has been waging against the Kurdish people”, Baytekin noted and added "We demand freedom for Öcalan, an end to the Turkish state’s hostile approach against Kurds and the release of all KCK (Kurdish Communities Union) detainees".
The meeting started with a message of support for PKK and PAJK prisoners who have been on an indefinite hunger strike in 13 prisons since 12 September to protest against the isolation imposed on the Kurdish leader.
Speaking at the public meeting at the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) office in Çankaya/Ankara, TUHAD-FED member Mehmet Baytekin said that TUHAD-FED Ankara office could also start a hunger strike if such was the demand coming from prisoners families as long as the current situation in prisons continues.
Baytekin underlined that TUHAD-FED Ankara organization doesn’t accept the isolation on which he said the AKP mentality has been insisting regardless of all goodwill gestures of Öcalan and the Kurdish people. “The government started a great political slaughter against Kurds to isolate them from legal politics in the scope of the war concept it has been waging against the Kurdish people”, Baytekin noted and added "We demand freedom for Öcalan, an end to the Turkish state’s hostile approach against Kurds and the release of all KCK (Kurdish Communities Union) detainees".
