The day of action focused on Tui (formerly Thomson Holidays). It included protests and actions at travel agents and distributing informative materials to the public.

Actions were organised in Barry, Swansea, Newport, Cardiff City Centre, Cardiff grafitti, Bristol, Brighton, Hull, Exeter, Merthyr Tudful, Manchester, Roath (Cardiff), Dundee, London.

Barry

An anonymous group pasted ‘solidarity with the hunger strike - boycott turkey’ posters over the Tui store in Barry, Wales. 

Cardiff

Hundreds of flyers handed out, Tui shop covered in stickers.

Over 7000 Kurdish activists are on hunger strike across the world. This action was initiated by Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament, Leyla Güven, on 7 November 2018. Imam Sis, a 32 year old Kurdish resident of Newport, has been on an indefinite hunger strike since the 17th November 2018. Their conditions are rapidly deteriorating.

The hunger strikers are calling for an end to the isolation of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan who has been held in a Turkish prison since 1999 and denied access to his lawyers since 2011 and only allowed very brief family visits to check he is alive in recent years. The hunger strikers are also demanding the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) re-open its investigation into the prison on Imrali Island (Turkey) where Öcalan is held.