91 prisoners are on indefinite hunger strike in 23 jails

Indefinite hunger strikes are being carried out in 23 prisons by 91 prisoners.

Hunger strikes were undertaken by dozens of prisoners in support of DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven.

The HDP deputy is on her 53rd day of the hunger strike she launched to demand the end of the isolation regime imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

According to Mesopotamian Agency (MA), indefinite hunger strikes are being carried out in 23 prisons by 91 prisoners.

On 16 December, an indefinite hunger strike action was undertaken by 39 prisoners in eight different prisons. The action entered its 16th day.

One day later, on 17 December, 9 new prisoners joined the indefinite strike in 3 more prisons. On 26 December, 42 prisoners in 12 prisons were reported to have declared indefinite their hunger strike.

The list of prisoners who went on hunger strikes indefinitely from 16 December is as follows:

16 December

Gebze Women’s Closed Prison: Hacer Halil Yusuf, Ruhşan Bozan, Özlem Özdemir, Ayten Gülsüm, Özlem Söyler.

Kandıra F Type No:1 Closed Prison: İbrahim Kaya, Umut Çamlıbel, Yusuf Başaran, Güven Süvarioğlu, Rıdvan Güven, Necla Atak.

Patnos L Type Closed Prison: Mehmet Bozdağ, Cengaver Aykul, Atilla Coşkun Özer, Ömer Kabul, Abdullah Kızılkaya.

Elazığ No:1 Closed Prison: Metin Serhat, Harun Alkan, Musa Candemir.

Diyarbakır D Type Closed Prison: Sercan Gümüş, Rıdvan Kaya, Nimetullah Cinkılıç, Hayati Uzman, Cüneyt Aslan.

Van F Type Closed Prison: Cihan Tamur, Barış Kahraman, Şahin Öncü, Azim Sökemen, Bahtiyar Kemal Hasan.

Bakırköy Women’s Closed Prison: Esma Başkale, Belgin Kanat, Zozan Kutum, Reyhan Coşmuşlu.

Diyarbakır E Type Closed Prison: Leyla Güven, Evin Kaya, Kibriye Evren, Hilal Ölmez.

Trabzon Beşikdüzü T Type Closed Prison: Ali Bektaş, Dılgeş Yaşar, Abdullah Aydın.

17 December

Tekirdağ F Type No:2 Prison: Ahmet Osman, Seyhan Kurt, Yakup Kaymaz.

Kandıra F Type No:2 Closed Prison: Sadettin Yaşar, Turan Günana, Mesut Atış.

Edirne F Type Closed Prison: Ramazan Çeper, Zerdeşt Oduncu, Adem Arslan.

26 December

Ödemiş T Type Closed Prison: Uğur Çiçek, Abdurrahman Yılmaz, Mehmet Kaplan, Serhat Güzel.

İzmir (Aliağa-Şakran) T Type No:2 Closed Prison: Mehmet Durak, Tanju Yıldırım, Nihat Ekmez, Yakup Güneş, Ramazan Atalay.

İzmir Women’s Closed Prison: Rahşan Aydın, Ebru Güden, Gülten Akgün.

Kırıklar F Type No:1 Closed Prison: Erdal Polat, Abdullah Oral, Sami Öztürk.

Kırıklar F Type No:2 Closed Prison: Ozan Alpkaya, Halis Dağhan.

Tekirdağ F Type No:1 Prison: Sinan Çelik, Rıdvan Turan, Burhan Barut, Erhan Aydın, Ali İlhan Bayer.

Tekirdağ F Type No:2 Prison: Serdar Şahin, Ahmet Sürme, Ümit Akgümüş, Ahmet Arif Yöyler, Roger Tirej Özalp.

Silivri No:5 Prison: Zafer Sağlam, Abdulselam Akdoğan, Hamza Doğrul, Yusuf Bayram, Halil Ay, Şiyar Yıldırım.

Silivri No:9 Prison: Seyhan Çiçekli.

Kırıkkale F Type Closed Prison: Sedat Alçiçek, İsa İpekli, Davud Önder, Emrah Ubik, Kerem İmrak.

Bafra F Type Closed Prison: Abdullatif Teymur.

Düzce T Type Closed Prison: Süleyman Benzer, Mehmet Erbey.