The New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) issued a statement in support of the hunger strikes launched against the aggravated isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan by the Turkish state.

NPA said some 50 Kurds went on a hunger strike on the call of the France Democratic Kurdish Council in Paris and HDP MP Leyla Guven’s hunger strike has continued for over a month.

“All these women and men are protesting the absolute isolation Öcalan is held under,” said the NPA and added that the hunger strike activists are also protesting the mass arrests of elected HDP officials and all opposition voices by the AKP regime.

NPA said many Kurds have joined the hunger strike to protest the absolute impunity awarded the Turkish regime by Europe and pointed to Turkey’s human rights violations and invasion of Afrin.

NPA said, “Impunity for the Turkish government must end, and actual sanctions are inevitable to this end.”

NPA showed “full solidarity” with the hunger strike activists and listed the following demands:

- Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom and a negotiation based political solution to the Kurdish issue in Turkey

- Freedom for all political prisoners

- Removal of the PKK from the European Union’s terrorist organizations list

France’s Left Party and Communist Party had also issued messages of solidarity before NPA.