The indefinite-alternating hunger strike launched by prisoners in the Konya Ereğli High Security Prison on October 4 to protest rights violations and severe isolation conditions was turned into an indefinite non-alternating hunger strike on November 16. It is reported that the prisoners on hunger strike have been put in solitary confinement cells.

Mehmet Can Yiger, one of the strikers, gave the following information in a phone call with his family:

“The health of fellow hunger strikers is gradually deteriorating. Our hunger strike to protest rights violations in the prison is growing stronger day by day. The prison forbids us to greet each other and speak Kurdish. They are trying to isolate us completely. They started to keep the prisoners on hunger strike on a separate floor. They have put the prisoners on hunger strike into solitary confinement cells. We can't see or hear anyone right now. The new cells were recently constructed, and they forced us to clean the new building and put us there. We are worried about isolation, and if anything happens to us, the prison will be responsible.”