Prisoners in Giresun Espiye L Type Closed Prison announced that they called off their hunger strike due to the earthquake. Erdal Emeç, told his family that the hunger strike had been called off and expressed his condolences to the people of Kurdistan.

Erdal Emeç, Aydın Oğuz and Ahmet Budak, who took over the alternating hunger strike 12 days ago, had turned the protest into an indefinite and irreversible hunger strike.

Emeç said that the reason for calling off the hunger strike was not the end of the torture in prison, but the earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people in 10 cities of Kurdistan.

Emeç said that they were tortured in the cell during the hunger strike and added: “The prison administration tried in every way to make us stop the hunger strike. They thought they could intimidate us. We know very well that what they do to us is not independent from the isolation of Kurdish people's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. For this reason, they did everything they could to break our will during the hunger strike, and they kept us in isolation. We offer our condolences to those who lost their lives due to the earthquake and wish a speedy recovery to the injured.'