The prisoners who started a 10-day indefinite alternating hunger strike on 4 October in Konya Ereğli High Security Prison, against rights violations and severe isolation conditions, turned it into indefinite and non-alternating hunger strikes on 16 November. The situation of the prisoners on hunger strike is getting worse and worse. In a phone call with his family, Mehmet Isiktas said: "The prison director prevents the inmates on hunger strike from meeting and talking with other prisoners, claiming that they are expanding the hunger strike by influencing others. They want to isolate us completely and prevent the hunger strike from being heard. Hear us now."

'Their situation is getting worse day by day'

In his meeting with his family, Isiktas noted that even greetings and speaking in Kurdish are prohibited, and said: “The inmates who are ill, have no hands or arms and cannot meet their basic needs on their own, yet they continue to be kept in single cells. The detainees, who were deported and brought from different prisons, are isolated by being placed in single cells. The situation of our friends, who have been on an indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike for about 30 days, is getting worse day by day. One of the prisoners in bad conditions is Remzi Akyürek. Something needs to be done as soon as possible. Our applications to the Ereğli Prison Administration regarding our requests to improve the harsh conditions of the prison are rejected. The number of people joining the hunger strike is increasing day by day. That's why we continue the indefinite and irreversible hunger strike that we started against all these rights violations and severe isolation."