DTK (Democratic Society Congress) Co-chair and HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) Hakkari MP Leyla Güven is on day 143 of her hunger strike launched to demand an end to the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.

HDP Member Nasir Yagiz is on day 130 of his hunger strike in Hewler. The 14 activists in Strasbourg as well as Imam Sis in Newport, Wales are on day 104.

Nasir Yagiz’s condition is getting worse as he experiences headaches and eye pain, and has trouble sleeping and standing up. Yagiz is strained by fatigue and can’t leave his room anymore.

MPs Dersim Dag, Tayip Temel and Murat Sarisac also continue their hunger strike at the HDP Diyarbakir offices.

The prisoners who launched a hunger strike on December 16 are on day 105 of their protest. Hunger strikes were launched in prisons on March 1 as well.

RELEASED PRISONERS CONTINUE PROTEST

Sedat Akin had launched a hunger strike in the Erzincan Type T Closed Prison, and he continues his protest in his home on day 83 after he was released from prison. Gurbet Ektiren also continues the hunger strike that started on January 15 at home after being released from the Bakirkoy Prison on day 15. Ektiren continues her hunger strike at her home in Mardin’s Derik district on day 74.

DIE LINKE MPS CALL ON MERKEL GOVERNMENT

20 MPs from Germany’s Left Party Die Linke called on the government to “take action”.

The call was signed by 20 MPs, including Co-chair Bernd Riexinger, and stressed that the federal government led by Angela Merkel is not reacting to the events in Turkey.

The call said: “As a leading country in the Council of Europe, Germany could save the lives of hunger strikers by ensuring that the rule of law is implemented in prisons in Turkey. Take action now for human life, not commercial relationships.”

A committee made up of Norwegian Solidarity Group, Red Party administrators, mayors and Die Linke MP Hakan Tas visited Leyla Güven in her home in Diyarbakir.