Families and relatives of prisoners, who have been on an indefinite hunger strike demanding the end of the isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, were set to make a press statement and stage sit-in in front of Batman M Type Closed Prison today to express their solidarity with the prisoners.

Turkish police surrounded the prison with armored vehicles and blockaded the families during the sit-in protest.

At least 20 relatives of the prisoners have been taken into custody in the crackdown.