Following the hunger strike launched by DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven to demand the end of isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, hundreds of political prisoners joined the fast.

Repression of prisoners have increased since the hunger strike and especially prisoners who are fasting have been put under pressure.

Teymur Enes from Rojava is a political prisoner held in Izmir Şakran prison where he is serving life imprisonment.

He has been on an indefinite hunger strike with his 39 friends since 27 February.

Teymur Enes, who has been in prison for 20 years, and other prisoners on hunger strike have been subjected to heavy repression and attacks by the prison administration.

While the ban on the prisoners' letter continues, the deposit of the money into the account of the prisoners is also prevented by the prison administration.