HDP Co-chair Sezai Temelli has visited Güven at her home today.

Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-chair and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP for Hakkari, Leyla Güven, is on the 80th day of her hunger strike demanding an end to the isolation regime imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Following a hearing, the Kurdish politician was released from prison yesterday, announcing that she would not end her hunger strike which -she recalled- was aimed at ending the isolation of Öcalan, not her own release.

Güven continues her hunger strike at her home in Amed (Diyarbakır).

Speaking after a visit to Güven at her home yesterday, HDP Co-chair Pervin Buldan had said the following: “We just had a brief meeting with her, and I'd like to relay her messages. She thanks everybody who has shown solidarity in the 79 days of her hunger strike. She said she received many letters of solidarity from the country and abroad and that these messages gave her strength. She said she is strong and her morale is high. She also said the hunger strikes in prisons and her own hunger strike will continue because their demand hasn't been met yet. Leyla Güven’s demand was an end to the isolation imposed upon Mr. Öcalan. She said her decision can change only after the demand to have Mr. Öcalan regularly meet with his lawyers and family is taken into account and these meetings start.”