Thousands of prisoners and dozens of activists around the world are on hunger strike demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan, who is imprisoned in İmralı Prison.

HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has been fasting for 180days as she went on hunger strike on 8 November 2018 effectively launching the resistance. She was then held illegally in prison, despite having been elected in parliament.

In the latest development in this long hunger strike resistance, the decision taken by 15 prisoners to turn their action into death fast since Tuesday 30 April.