Political prisoners held in Diyarbakır Women's Closed Prison said during their meeting with their families that they started a 5-day hunger strike against rights violations. The prisoners said that their hunger strike was a "warning".

The prisoners said that their rights to sports, conversation and courses were violated. They added that releases are delayed in an arbitrary manner, probation is prevented, and there are degrading practices such mouth searches and strip searches. They said that there are cameras on at all times, which is a violation of privacy, and that ill prisoners are not released, in open violation of the right to health.

The detainees continued: "Visiting and telephone hours are restricted, healthy eating conditions are not provided, freedom of belief and expression is not respected, publications in one’s mother tongue are not allowed, there is a quota of books we can receive, we are threatened with disciplinary punishment every other day."