The hunger strike started by HDP deputies Selma Irmak, Sebahat Tuncel, Kemal Aktas and Feleknas Uca in front of the United Nations building in Geneva, continues on the fifth day.

DTK (Democratic Society Congress) co-president and HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) Şırnak deputy Selma Irmak, Van MP Kemal Aktaş, Istanbul deputy Sebahat Tuncel and former MEP Feleknaz Uca, a current member of the executive board of the DTK, started hunger strike to call attention to the ongoing attacks of ISIS gangs on the Kobanê Canton of West Kurdistan.

A tent set up in front of the UN building for the deputies continues to receive support and visits from various organisations as well as the Kurdish people living in Europe.

Speaking during a visit by hundreds of Kurds living in Switzerland, DTK (Democratic Society Congress) Co-president Selma Irmak called attention to the meaning and importance of their protest, stressing that the UN should fullfill its responsibility and hear the voice raised by the people there and by the Kurdish people resisting in four parts of Kurdistan.

Irmak said Kurds were intended to be left facing a massacre in the 21st century, underlining that they however fought alone against an inhuman organization for the sake of all peoples and their future.

Speaking after, HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) Istanbul MP Sebahat Tuncel pointed to the fact that international powers didn't go beyond just watching what is happening in Rojava. Tuncel said the decisions made by the west served their own benefits, and called for the breaking of the wall of silence in the face of the threat of massacre being faced today by the peoples in Rojava and the Middle East.

Tuncel stressed that the point the AKP government has reached in the "process of democratic resolution" initiated by Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan meant insisting on war, adding; "Turkey's approach towards Rojava serves interrupting the peace process. The AKP government should know very well that there can be no peace in Turkey while a war is going on in Rojava. If there will be peace, it should happen in all four parts of Kurdistan."