Families of prisoners who have been on hunger strikes to protest the isolation imposed upon Ocalan spoke against police brutality and announced that they will be on the streets every day until the isolation is broken.
Families of prisoners have been protesting for weeks to draw attention to the hunger strikes against the hunger strikes and death fasts against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
The prisoners’ relatives calling for more awareness in Amed are systemically subjected to police terror.
The prisoners’ mothers gathered in front of the Families of Arrestees Solidarity Association (TUAY-DER) Amed Chapter and held a sit-in to protest the police brutality they were subjected to on Thursday in the Baglar district.
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Amed MPs Remziye Tosun, Musa Farisogullari and Saliha Aydeniz and Free Women’s Movement (TJA) activist Ayla Akat Ata supported the mothers’ protest.
Ayten Gul, one of the mothers battered by the police in the Kosuyolu Park on Thursday, said they are protesting to have the demands of their children met.
Gul added: “Our children are dying. They battered us, they dragged us on the ground. A solution must be found. We won’t leave the streets until a solution is found. There is nothing more to say.”
Mother Garip Pehlivan said, “Our children are on a death fast. Our children have laid their bodies down to die for the Kurdish people, for the peoples of Turkey.”
Pehlivan added: “The government and the Justice Minister should listen: We will not accept this. Until the demands of our children are met, until the isolation is broken, we will be on the streets 24 hours a day.”
The mothers continued with the sit-in after the statement and frequently chanted “Biji berxwedana zindanan” and “Amed wake up defend your honor” until the protest ended.
