The previously announced hunger strike demanding access to Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan has begun in the main Kurdish city Amed.

The hunger strike was launched in the building of the Democratic Regions' Party (DBP). The hunger strike, organised by DTK (Democratic Society Congress), HDK (Peoples' Democratic Congress), KJA (Free Women's Congress), DBP (Democratic Regions' Party) and HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) is being participated by the following 50 politicians;

Nadir Yıldırım
Selma Irmak
Berdan Öztürk
Dilek Öcalan
Ferhat Encu
Ebru Günay
Cengiz Çiçek
Sebahat Tuncel
Gülcihan Şimşek
Zeynel Mat
Mehmet Candemir
Uğur Bayrak
Zeki Baran
Murat Döner
Leyla Güven
Hasip Yalnıç
Zeynep Karaman
Ceylan Bağrıyanık
Berfin Emektar
İbrahim Halil Yıldırım
Nazım Hikmet Çalışkan
Abdullah Tarhan
Zeynel Doğan
İslam Dağdeviren
Bekir Kaya
Mehmet Ali Tunç
Beritan Tayan
Bayram Demir
Berivan Özlem Kutlu
Yıldız Çetin
Rukiye Eryılmaz
Hasan Güngör
Zelal Abiş Birtane
Hayrettin Satar
Hüseyin Çelik
Necmi Dilmaç
Bayram Akman
Abdulkadir Çalışkan
Siyamend Yaruk
Arif Akkaya
Abbas Ercan
Arzu Karaman
Elif Haram
Semra Karaduman
Talat Emre
Rıfat Roni
Sinan Ekinci
Nalan Göze
Yusuf Ziya Yavuz
Yusuf Sökmen