9 women against isolation detained in Ankara

People taking to the streets in solidarity with hunger strike activists are faced with brutal police aggression in Turkey and North Kurdistan.

Ankara Women’s Platform promoted a demonstration in the central Kuğulu Park to raise awareness for the massive hunger strike protest demanding the end of the isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MPs Tülay Hatimoğulları and Dilan Dirayet Taşdemir joined the demonstration alongside the relatives of prisoners.

After surrounding the park with anti-riot vehicles and barriers, police tried to obstruct the demonstration, in response to which women started to march arm in arm, chanting “Leyla Güven is right, isolation must be lifted”.

HDP MPs who discussed with the police following a threat of attack, were told by a police chief “you are the deputies of the organization, we are the police of the state”.

During the following crackdown of the police, 9 women including Peace Mother Gülistan Ozgan were taken into custody.

The detained women were then issued 300 TL penalty fine each for “acting against the Misdemeanor Law”. They were released following health examinations at Gazi Hospital.

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