Fifteen PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) prisoners in Edirne F Type prison went on indefinite and irreversible hunger strike on 1 December to protest against the violations of rights, naked search imposition, arbitrary practices and pressures and denial of treatment they suffer from in jail.

Among the fifteen prisoners are also those who were transferred from Diyarbakır D Type prison last month. The hunger strike was started after inmates received no answer from the prison administration in response to their demands for the improvement of their conditions and ending of the repression against them.

Relatives of prisoners have stated that 120 other PKK prisoners have also started a three day alternate hunger strike in solidarity with their comrades joining the protest. Some 30 inmates in Edirne F Type prison have reportedly been transferred to Silivri prison after the strike began.

Families of prisoners listed the right violations voiced by the inmates on hunger strike as follows;

- naked body search imposition

- reduction of the right to use the common area, prison garden where inmates go for a walk in the fresh air, from ten hours a week to ten hours a month

- the prison administration's not answering the letters of application prisoners filed to denounce the violations of rights they suffered

- denial of heating and warm water on the grounds that “central heating is out of order”

- denial of treatment and hospitalization for ill prisoners

- foreign substances seen in the meals provided by the prison administration

- high prices at the prison canteen, the sale of expired products and denial of treatment for prisoners who became sick due to the expired products sold by the canteen.