The 14 activists on hunger strike in Strasbourg have reached day 45.

The activists are demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. The hunger strikers are visited by many Kurdish patriots and friends every day.

Representatives of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), the Martyrs' Families (KOMAV), the People's Assembly of Frankfurt and many members of the Zurich People's Assembly visited the hunger strikers on Wednesday.

KNK member Mehmet Emin Yildiz, despite his illness, was in Strasbourg, while artist Sosin was also among those who did not leave the hunger strikers alone.

‘Our top priority must be the hunger strikers’

Azize Yildiz, a member of KOMAV and Peace Mother in 2000, drew attention to the fact that the critical threshold of the hunger strike has been crossed.

Yildiz said that she has come to Strasbourg for the third time since the beginning of the hunger strike and said that she is worried as she noted that the health situation of the activists has deteriorated at each visit.

Calling on Kurdish people to claim this action, Azize Yildiz asked everyone in whichever country they live, as well as politicians and human rights defenders to show support and act.

Referring to the local elections to be held in March in Turkey and Kurdistan, Yildiz said that the general agenda of the Kurdish people should be hunger strikes.

‘We must break this silence’

Speaking during a visit to the activists, Kurd-Pen member Rukiye Özmen said that today's hunger strikes raised the resistance as it happened during the 1980s in the prisons.

Özmen underlined that with her action, Leyla Güven has led a resistance both against isolation against the Kurdish People's Leader and the repression against the Kurdish people and added that the resistance is spreading and will continue to spread.

Özmen stressed that the Kurdish people will struggle with all kinds of actions, including hunger strikes, for their human rights and identity. “We must break this silence”, said Özmen stating that this would force the Turkish state to negotiate.

Dozens of Kurdish patriots from different countries of Europe are pouring into Strasbourg to be beside the hunger striker.

On Wednesday visitors came from Frankfurt, Pforzheim, Cologne, and Switzerland.