The two hunger strikers sent their greetings from Vienna to all the hunger strikers, including DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven and urged all Kurds and their friends to be more active and give voice to the resistance.

The resistance of Sultan Yiğit and Şivan Ağaoğlu, on hunger strike in Vienna for 40 days, continues.

The hunger strikers in Vienna have joined the resistance led by DTK co-chair Leyla Güven demanding the end of isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Both hunger strikers are regularly checked by doctors belonging to the medical team set up by the Center for Democratic Society who will make assessments in the coming days.

Doctor Cornelia Dechant, the cardiologist who controls both the activists said she would provide more details in the coming days.

The hunger strikers complain of insomnia, dizziness, discomfort, drop in blood pressure. Yiğit and Ağaoğlu lost 7 kilos in 40 days but said that their morale is good.

The two hunger strikers sent their greetings from Vienna to all the hunger strikers, including DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven and urged all Kurds and their friends to be more active and give voice to the resistance.

Both hunger strikers called on people to join the march “Live against isolation” in Vienna on Saturday (16 March).

“Hunger strikers in prison - said Yiğit and Ağaoğlu - in Turkey and Kurdistan joined Leyla Güven’s action and are on the threshold of death. The hunger strike both in prison and outside has reached a critical stage. Both the fascist AKP-MHP power and the European states, which are their accomplices, are keeping silence.

If we do not want our precious revolutionary, democrat and patriotic people to lose their lives, we must claim their action and join all organized activities. Resistance keeps alive, while silence kills.”

The 16 March march is organised to mark the 31st anniversary of the Halabja massacre and will be supported by the hunger strikers.