PKK and PAJK prisoners in 13 jails have been on hunger strike for 12 days. The prisoners have announced on 12 September a new hunger strike to protest against the isolation imposed on Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.

The action was first started in Diyarbakýr E, Diyarbakýr D, Bolu, Siirt, Kandýra 1 and Kandýra 2 prisons. But in the following days prisoners from other jails have joined the protest: Bakýrköy, Edirne, Erzurum, Rize, Midyat, Silivri and Mardin..

The hunger strike, the prisoners confirmed, is indefinite.