Deputies of BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) and Labor, Democracy and Freedom Block will go on a two-day hunger strike on 20-21 February. The act of deputies will be staged to support the indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike of arrested MP Selma Irmak who will start the act today with six other political woman prisoners.

In a written statement about Selma Irmak’s act, BDP Co-Chairs Gültan Kýþanak and Selahattin Demirtaþ said that; “We greet the honorable resistance of BDP Þýrnak MP Selma Irmak and other political prisoners who have started an indefinite hunger strike in Diyarbakýr Prison to protest AKP government’s uninterrupted operations of political slaughter, aggravating isolation in Ýmralý Prison and war operations that escalate conflicts in the Kurdish problem.”

The statement remarked that the resistance of Irmak and other deputies would contribute to the starting of a process of dialogue, negotiation, solution and democratization.

The statement also announced that BDP and Block deputies will stage a two-day hunger strike on 20-21 February at the central Office of the party to support the resistance led by Selma Irmak.